Why, we ask, might Socrates seem eager to accept his unjust punishment, accorded by unjust men, in this the most unjust of situations? ... That in fact he may be as unjust as those who condemn him. ... By relishing the hemlock and accepting his unjustly mandated fate, Socrates would be guilty of aiding and abetting those who acted unjustly, and in so doing, would seemingly be guilty of acting unjustly himself. ... However, by allowing himself to be punished unjustly, Socrates would knowingly do wrong by assisting those who have acted unjustly in his sentencing. ... Because of his unjust be...

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To me this social law is unjust. ... Another example of unjust laws that exist within our society today deal with minors under the age of 18. ... While everyone is told of how we should live and laws are in affect to protect us, minors have more laws that have to follow, thus making many of them unjust by King's definition and mine. ... These laws can be unjust by King's standard that says "a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law." ... King was right in fighting to bridge the...

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What is Socrates' conception of the relationship between the individual and the State or Laws, as shown in the Crito? ... This brings us to the second aspect of Socrates' conception of the relationship - Athens cannot continue to function without laws, and if Socrates were to disobey the orders of these laws, then he, as a citizen, is therefore implementing the destruction of the laws themselves. ... Socrates sees the Laws and the State as parental figures to the citizens of Athens. ... In this case, Socrates saw great logic and rationalised that indeed it would be unjust for Socrat...

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One is when he says that even though the laws are unjust, you must follow them. ... He should have still kept trying to show that the ruling was unjust and that he was right. It has been proven in the United States that one can fight against an unjust ruling or an unjust law; like the Black Civil Rights Movement, and Women's Rights. By allowing the unjust ruling to go through, Socrates allowed the city to be able to wrong another person when the situation rises again. ... Socrates sentence to death was unjust. ...

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Issues that I will base my argument on are the important questions of Truth, Justice, Death and State Law. ... Socrates states the importance of standing by his previous reasoning (no unjust acts). He believes it is his social duty to accept his punishment, be it unjust or just. ... For Socrates, the law is always distinguished from brute force. ... We are born into a society and by remaining in it, according to Socrates, we implicitly agree to obey its laws. ...

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If people obeyed all laws, they would tend to do unjust things. ... Politicians are supposed to act according to just laws, but more often than not, they tend to take the law in their own hands. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... The tax collector needs to stop serving the unjust government. ... Socrates is clearly criticizing politicians of being unjust. ...

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Socially Constituted and Socially Defined Law An argument against the idea of Natural Law The idea of natural law has been long debated in the subject of jurisprudence. ... The sovereign is that person who decides right from wrong, and just from unjust. ... There is no such thing as natural law because the sovereign makes the laws. ... If it is this kind of procedure that makes a law, then natural law is not law at all. Natural law theorists will argue that God enforces the natural law. ...

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Book VI: how democracies and oligarchies are to be established ". . . we will perhaps grasp better . . . how each political system should be organized so as to be best; and what habits and laws it should follow." ... Third argument: (1) Nature does nothing pointlessly. (2) A human being is the only animal with rational discourse, logon. (3) Rational discourse is for making clear what is expedient or harmful, and hence what is just or unjust. (4) It is community in good and evil, and just and unjust, that produces a household and a city. (5) Therefore, a human being is by nature a political a...

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Glaucon's brother, Adeimantus, backs up his brother's speech by stating that an unjust man with a deceivably just reputation(which is almost always the trait of the perfectly unjust man) is also better than the just man. ... Therefore, if the following is considered true, then unjust men leads to more unjust men, and then what would happen if unjust men ruled the world. ... So therefore in the end, unjust men would lose. ... Unjust men, on the other hand, appreciate neither just men nor other unjust men. ... Real philosophers, however, find that it is in their best interest to gove...

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So in the first incident, Socrates argues that the will of the people can be disobeyed when unjust, however in the second incident, he argues that the law should not be broken at any cost. ... Socrates sees escape as an unjust act. ... He strengthens his conviction by personifying the laws. To escape would be committing an unjust act against the figure of the law, going against everything that Socrates stands for. ... In the Apology, Socrates claims that he will go against the law if the law requires him to stop his philosophical teachings. ...

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People in power make laws and the weaker party is supposed to follow those laws... ""(339D) Thus, according to Thrasymachus, justice is "obediance to the laws made by the rulers in the interest of the rulers... In time, people agreed to a sort of crude system of laws that established a system of right and wrong. The laws were, however, self serving to the more powerful. ... If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they please without detection, the two men, both the just and unjust alike, will seize the opport...

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Valid conduct, therefore, can only apply where there is law (89). ... In essence, the content of the law as well as the definition of acting justly or unjustly is arbitrary. ... However, the sharpest difference between the two exists in their creation of the law: why the law exists, what the law entails, and who makes the law. ... This is the reason the law exists. ... This higher power is the highest good, and it defines not only what the law will be, but also who gets to make the laws. ...

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In his speech Pericles states that democracy in stills equality by stating that "everyone is equal before law" and it is expected of them to "service the state" (Warner, 37, 145). ... By establishing guidelines on how one should be: to serve the state, be equal before the law, develop merit, and to be tolerant towards others. ... Strepsiades seeks to escape his debts by learning unjust speech. ...

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If the character of the people is sound, laws are unnecessary; if unsound, laws are useless. ... Through music the soul learns harmony & rhythm, & also a disposition of justice because "he who is harmoniously constituted can never be unjust". ...

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