Questions tagged [justice]
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When is a vigilante response to injustice, morally justified?
We discussed a similar question, about facing tyranny and the threat of death, where I'd say the answer is clearer: Is the tyrannicide perpetrated by William Tell morally legitimate?
But what ...
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What determines your “awareness” when it comes to being criminally responsible for murder?
I recently came across an (admittedly) infuriating case in Canada where a person stabbed, dismembered, and literally cannibalized a man in a bus. He was later deemed not criminally responsible since ...
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To what extent is a person responsible for morally reprehensible beliefs if he was raised to believe them?
Somehow this feels like a relevant question in light of the current turmoil. There are radicalized people who are radicalized from childhood and have no regard for anything other than belief or party ...
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Is there an ethics term for adjudicating for the least total violent outrage, at the expense of fairness?
Let's say two people are in a disagreement. Everyone knows the first is generally peaceable, and even when treated unfairly, will usually take it and move on. The second is a bully, and whenever he ...
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What is more important upholding justice or protecting interest of few people?
To begin with let me give some background of myself. I am a student of an open university in India (distance education) and at the same time a student of another university (regular course). The ...
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Does Anscombe think that injustice is always wrong?
Does Anscombe think that injustice is always wrong? I cannot find out, as MMP is a little vague about it, and only says it is never right, rather than always impermissible.
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What role should victims have in determining punishment for crimes? [closed]
If we care about retributive justice , that is the principle of proportional penalty , are victims the best judges of what penalties to hand out ? Since the goal is to cause equal suffering to the ...
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What does Socrates mean by not reusing his initial objection to Cephalus’s definition of Justice to object to Polemarchus’s definition?
Plato’s Republic Book 1
331 C: Socrates says that if we return a weapon given to us by a sane friend who has since then turned insane, we are not being just.
Polemarchus then defines Justice as the ...
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What was the reason why they (in Plato's Republic) chose to focus on justice?
I am trying to read Plato's The Republic. It is not easy to understand.
There are two things I just can't understand.
When Socrates and Glaukon come to Kephalos' house the discussion very quickly ...
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Why is it that the precedent of breaking a bad law might weaken the force, and lead to discretionary violation of those which are good?
It's an opinion expressed by Thomas Paine in his book 'Rights of Man'.
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How to start learning philosophy and overcome my bias towards mathematics?
I am interested and curious about philosophy, especially topics like morals, justice, ethics, etc. I want to read books that explain the philosophy behind them. However, I am very ignorant and I don’t ...
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Are morals and justice meaningless? What do philosophers think about them?
I am curious about the concepts of morals and justice. Do they have any objective reality, or are they just subjective illusions that we create for ourselves? Are they meaningless? How can we define ...
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Is punishment necessary to right an injustice?
I am usually against the idea of punishment and think of the state and law as a means of social control rather than desert etc.. But do certain unfair acts - perhaps not necessarily the most evil, but ...
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When is a legal failing an injustice?
When is a legal failing, failing to apply the law, an injustice?
Some serious crimes, rape and murder being the most obvious, might well be injustices when not punished, simply becasue justice surely ...
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Justice and general intelligence systems? [closed]
In a world of general intelligence systems. If an AI causes an accident how is justice served? This maybe due to the overlook of a human who is no longer there. And the reason for that would be it was ...
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Philosophy of restorative justice?
What are some good reading materials for: New Zealand's restorative justice? What is the philosophy behind it?
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When is war justified? Is defence of national sovereignty a sufficient moral justification? [closed]
If aggressive war is always wrong, is defensive war always right?
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Does the arc of history bend toward justice.?
"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long
one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and
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Looking for reading recommendations: Theories of right/justice that safeguard against having one's job automated?
Can anyone recommend any books or articles on AI automation of jobs?
Specifically, books that develop or discuss a theory of right and then apply it to the question of whether we should let job ...
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Has anyone tried the Rearden defense?
My question requires some context – please bear with me.
In Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, industrialist Hank Rearden violates the so-called 'fair share' law by doing business with another character. ...
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When someone profits from injustice, is life less meaningful?
Obviously most philosophers (and lay people) would consider injustice morally wrong^, but does it debase the meaning of everyone's life, just the beneficiary, just those that lose out or no-one's?
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How this principle related to Golden Rule and Eye for an Eye is called?
Had long admiration to this example:
When criminals were sent to isolated island centuries ago they suddenly realized that it's not fun anymore when everyone is criminal. And switched to one of most ...
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If anyone will not acknowledge the force of reason...Michael Maier
"If anyone will not acknowledge the force of reason, he must needs have recourse to authority.
Michael Maier (Herm. Mus. II. 223)”
--Whitall N. Perry, Huston Smith, Marco Pallis, The Spiritual ...
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How do concepts like human rights apply to an Artificial Intelligence agent?
Say one day we have created an artificial intelligence (AI) agent with self conscious and capable of thinking in a loop of thought under bounded rationality just like humans do...
As human can inject ...
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How reliable is the concept of mainstream karma?
This has nothing to do with any particular religions, rather the shared belief that nature will reward good people (people who act ethically) and will punish bad people (people who act unethically), ...
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Why should an atheist care about what happens to the world after his/her death?
Consider someone who doesn't believe in any kind of reincarnation or perfect punishment after death, an atheist. That is, nothing in the world can impact him/her after his/her death, because, as he/...
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Is it wrong to fly on holiday?
I have the impression that more and more colleagues disapprove of me flying for holidays. That made me ponder, but I'm not convinced that I'm making a moral mistake. I argue that my actions cannot be ...
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Isn't it is unethical that lawyers protect their client even after knowing the client is guilty, isn't its injustice to the true person?
Imagine a lawyer already knows the guilt of his client, has all the proofs then too why he protects the unethical side, isn't that injustice to the other side.
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Is the concept of justice circular?
Hugo Grotius stated that “Justice…denotes nothing but what is just, indeed more in the negative sense than the positive, insofar as justice is that which is not unjust.”
Is this not circular? A ...
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Is Anscombe saying that we seem unable to move from 'unreasonable' to 'wrong' because we lack a contemporary understanding of 'virtue'
She refers to "psychology", and not being able to do "philosophy", of contemporary "systems" which, she complains, allows people to commit "injustice".
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Animal commodification
Is it morally or ethically justified to commodify animals (i.e., such as the tiger temple when it was a thing)? Should humans treat animals' ends (telos) with as much respect as we do ourselves? ...
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In Plato's Republic, why would a musical, medical, or knowledgeable man NOT try to get the better of another like man?
Book I, 349e, Socrates confirming the position of Thrasymachus:
"...is any musical man who is tuning a lyre in your opinion willing to
get the better of another musical man in tightening and ...
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Is Justice a step above Equity?
I've seen this image and it made me wondering if the meanings of the words are correct. What I learned in school is that equal rights and opportunities is equity. However, in this image there is a ...
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Criticism to the premise of arbitrariness of moral desert in Rawls
I am aware of several criticisms to Rawls's redistributive mechanics in A Theory of Justice. I am wondering whether there are also criticisms on the premise of arbitrariness of moral desert.
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Is there any moral reasoning behind punishment?
Usually when someone does something bad they get punished. There are a few reasons for this, e.g. Them not doing it again or other people not doing in the first place. I was wondering if there is a ...
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Comparing Albert Camus and Karl Marx
My brother is lawyer. He likes reading philosophy and writing about law. He wants to find a source about a conflict ideas of revolution as you know Albert Camus and Karl Marx have. He wants to write ...
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When philosophers argue about "definitional questions," what exactly are they arguing about?
By "definitional question," I mean questions like what is knowledge, what is justice, what is love, etc - questions that relate to the definition of certain abstract concepts.
Take the ...
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How to convince an anti-rawlsian of the pertinence of the "veil of ignorance" condition?
My question is not about the contractarian methodology adopted by Rawls, but specfically about the "veil of ignorance" condition.
How to articulate precisely the moral intuition that is ...
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What is wrong in the reasoning that someone's accidental death is justified by his troubled past? [closed]
It seems to challenge the idea of the justice system, but in a very subtle way. Are there other flaws with this reasoning?
Is the confusion between the idea of a greater power's justice (law of nature,...
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What are the most important responses to the claim that utilitarianism is compatible with extreme injustices?
Utilitarianism is often accused of being compatible with extreme injustices. If by tormenting a minority, a great amount of happiness is generated for a large majority, this situation would be ...
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What is justice? Is justice blind?
Is justice something you find at a courthouse? Where would you find justice?
From my perspective there is no justice until the one being judged has a say in how he is being judged. I believe ...
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What are the main differences and similarities between Rousseau and Kant's moral philosophy?
Main differences and similarities between Rousseau and Kant, especially in the subjects of justice, morality and also how Rousseau influenced Kant.
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How would luck egalitarianism deal with AI and automatisation in production?
Mainstream theories of justice, particularly luck egalitarianism, accept that the "good fortune," the goods that result from endowments, not from choice or effort, be redistributed to aid those ...
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Opposite of victim blaming?
If victim blaming is the fallacy of automatically assigning fault to the victim ("it's her fault because she was dressed that way"), what is the fallacy of exonerating a person simply by virtue of ...
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Is a good being, also just?
Question: Does a good being, also have to be just/fair?
Side Question: What philosophers/resources would be recommended to research such an idea?
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How to argue that some inequality is justifiable in order to maximize the well-being of the worst off in Rawls's theory of justice?
In context, I have to describe what we think is a just society by Rawls theory of justice. I want to try and use Scandinavia, for example, the Nordic Model as a representation as a just society. ...
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Why do we punish crime?
I have no formal training whatsoever in philosophy but have a question nonetheless. I am sorry if this is way off topic for this site.
Crime begets punishment: let us say that punishment is prison.
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Might Marx's argument in Das Kapital be less about justice and exploitation than it is about disenfranchisment?
Might Marx's argument in Das Kapital be less about justice and exploitation than it is about disenfranchisment? I specifically mean his analysis of work, the falling rate of profit, and movement of '...
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Why Nietzsche believes that victims barter the damage they receive with a violent feast to see their tormentor suffer in a feast?
In the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality: Guilt, bad conscience and the like, 6, Nietzsche seems to defend the thesis that victims barter the damage they received with a violent feast to ...
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What is the historical entitlement conception of justice? How does it differ from the patterned conception?
Related to Nozick.
What are the policy implications of the two approaches? Any examples?
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