Reproductive justice

pit of their stomachs the streets ring out in a symphony of cacophony. “Justice!” they cry, “Justice!” they plead, “Justice!” they scream. But just who’s justice are they asking for? Our society has so savagely depicted Justice that her sword now lies limp, her eyes are scolding- blindfold disregarded, and her scales have found an unfavorable neutral in which one is raised far above the other. Being told to have faith in justice if nothing else now means very little when what continues to…

Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of equality and justice in his letter to the people of Birmingham, Alabama. King writes, from his jail cell, about the injustice he has seen and he offers ways of fixing it. His plans starts with acquiring an understanding of the difference between a just and unjust law and how to react to them. Then his plan requires taking action to abide by and fight for these just laws. The final…

compelling account for the paradox that is defining law. The following arguemnts will be premised upon the concepts of an unjust law still technically existing as law and the weaknesses that Socrates identifies for law as social order and law as justice or right as less subjective and more likely to hold true when the philosophy is applied to real situations. II. STATE LAW Laws can be good or bad – they cannot retroactively be deemed unfit to be law in the past, only in the present by the…

arguments will be premised upon the concepts of unjust laws technically remaining law, despite the apparent lack of justice, and the weaknesses that Socrates identifies in law as social order and law as justice or right being more likely to persist when they are practically applied. II. STATE LAW First of all, though it is reasonable to expect that “law inherently contains an element of justice or right,” this does not mean that the element is a necessity for law to exist. A law being…

explains how they relate to being a good leader. One of these virtues is justice. Aristotle argues that justice is the foundation upon which all other virtues are built. Therefore, is important for leaders to understand the multiple facets of justice: universal, distributive, and criminal. The first level of justice is universal justice. Universal justice is important for leaders to understand because…

Book 1 of Plato’s Republic is concerned with justice. Although Plato doesn’t give his own definition of justice, he does consider and eventually refute the suggestions offered by some of the characters we encounter. These characters include Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Thrasymachus, who have different perspectives on morality. In this paper, I will be giving my own interpretation of this text, which will include a description of the three characters as well as an account of Socrates’ interaction…

Martin Luther King Jr.’s A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. is an essential, one-volume compilation of the late Civil Rights activist’s words. Included in the volume are autobiographical reflections, interviews and speeches. Within these compiled words hold Dr. King’s thoughts on a great many subjects including, but not limited to, black nationalism, nonviolence, poverty and segregation. Some of these works include the “Playboy” interview, “Letter…

John Rawls in his “A Theory of Justice” tries to identify an alternative viable theory of social justice to other predominant doctrines, which have dominated our philosophical tradition. While the author acknowledges that most citizens and institutions recognise the principle of social justice, he also underlines that their conceptions on the distribution of basic rights and duties are influenced by their interests and hence, are not always to the advantage of all citizens. In fact, Rawls…

Proposition: Hart argues that we conceptualized the Grudge informer case by maintaining unjust law is still a law, but perhaps so unjust that it should be disobeyed: On the one hand, we will begin our analysis by explaining the first part of the proposition “Hart argues that we conceptualized the Grudge informer case by maintaining unjust law is still a law”. In order to understand why according to him an unjust law is still a law, it is necessary to remind briefly his view on the connection…

dictionary, justice is the maintenance or administration of what is fair especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments. Justice is usually seen as actions of doing good works such as giving money to the poor and putting a criminal in prison for their wrong actions. In his book “The Republic”, Plato gives his beliefs on both the political and the individual form of justice, using the dialogues of Socrates. The political justice is…