Philosophy of Justice

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My own Personal Philosophy of Justice I do not see myself working in the justice system one day for I do not have a passion for it but I do however created my own philosophy of justice and my thoughts I have after doing this module and what I have learned. Justice is the virtue of treating people in accordance with their actions. It is applying the law of identity to people. All people are not equal. Some are good and some are evil and they must be treated accordingly. Acting justly requires the willingness to judge. You must identify people and their actions as being good or evil and act on it. Justice is judging and acting on your judgment. But judging requires a standard of judgment, and that standard should be the same as your moral standard, man's life. Injustice is turning the other cheek or showing mercy to wrongdoers. Those actions are evasions of reality because you are acting as if a person hasn't acted the way they have. Injustice is also not recognizing achievement and greatness in others -specifically treating an achiever as a non-achiever or worse. Judging people by methods other than their actions (such as racism) is also an injustice. Acting justly is in your self-interest because good people around you will feel recognized and continue their good behaviour. Bad people around you will be encouraged to stop their bad behaviour because of the consequences. Also, the people around you will tend to treat you justly, which is a good thing assuming that I live a normal, productive life. I think justice is also a philosophical concept of rightness or correctness in Ethics. Although justice is arguably fundamental to any ethical system, the definitions of ‘justice’ and what is ‘just’ are widely disputed among philosophers, ethicists and political thinkers. My notion of what justice is will ultimately depend on my meta-ethical position, and my approach to normative ethics in response to that position. For example, a moral skeptic who favors consequentialist...