... of the argument to follow. Justice Prospering [εὐδαιμονία] Plato The Sophists The History of Moral and Political Philosophy Midway through Book I of Plato’s Republic, the character Socrates attempts to placate a rather animated Thrasymachus: ‘After making such a speech do you have it in mind...

...0 21 03 2024 This chapter addresses the 5th Century sophistic challenge to justice by focusing on two sophistic texts, the ‘Sisyphus Fragment’ of unknown authorship and fragment B44 from Antiphon’s On Truth. The authors of these texts—the Moral Cynics—denied that the gods could...

...0 21 03 2024 This chapter offers a close reading of the first two books of Republic in order to argue that they draw from and engage with the debate about justice discussed earlier. It is argued that Glaucon and Adeimantus’ challenge to justice is both old and new: it is old...

... United Nations Guiding Principles UNGPs Archimedes Lever Business Human rights Transitional justice Accountability This book presents the past and the present of accountability for corporations complicit in gross human rights violations. It uses a creative combination of a flexible...

...; and justice. Finally, it comments on the role of feminism in the academy as a set of political practices as well as epistemological claims. References Bell, D. , Binnie, J. , Cream, J. , and Valentine, G. ( 1994 ) All hyped up and no place to go.   Gender, Place and Culture...

... for improving the human condition. An apparent lack of social concern on the part of the new numerical human geography helped to provoke the ‘radical’ reaction of the 1970s. Inequality and social justice became central issues, as the role of values in geography was explicitly recognised. The 1990s saw a broader...

... conceptualization of justice. It suggests that the ‘rod and ring’ scene in royal monuments also signified righteous kingship sanctified by the gods and it communicated an aspect of the enduring relationship between the palace and the temple which served to secure the institutional continuity that endured throughout...

... background emotions epistemic emotions empathy elitism ‘enemies of the people’ headline newspapers ‘enemies of the people’ headline procedural justice voice respect trustworthiness artificial intelligence neutrality algorithms China Poland sentencing Graver H P Thomas Lord of Cwmgiedd...

... religions in general and new religions in particular. Secondly, the Affair elicited stakeholders to engage in social ostracism as a primary mechanism for punishing transgressors. Thirdly, the Affair showed that restorative justice remains inchoate in a cultural context which sees capital punishment as both...

... religions in general and new religions in particular. Secondly, the Affair elicited stakeholders to engage in social ostracism as a primary mechanism for punishing transgressors. Thirdly, the Affair showed that restorative justice remains inchoate in a cultural context which sees capital punishment as both...

...The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All is one of the major works from the golden age of Egyptian literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1980–1630 bc). The poem provides one of the most searching explorations of human motivation and divine justice...

... with his name. Based on his personal view of the role of religion in private and public life, he called on individuals to regard the fulfilment of civic duties as a social obligation, commit themselves to a world of free and equal nationalities, and work for the attainment of social justice across national...

... the stage for an in-depth exploration. Childhood Liberal egalitarianism Theories of justice Children’s rights Reflective equilibrium Social constructivism 2 But should this be so? Should there be a law just for kids? Is it a necessary and banal truth that children are so different from adults...

...This chapter examines the way in which the victim of crime, the ‘forgotten party’ of the criminal justice system has started to regain something of the standing of an interested party with recognised rights in the justice system. A number of causal narratives are involved in this gradual process...

...Exploring contradictions inherent in liberal orders, this chapter questions the treatment of liberalism in the International Relations academy as a relatively straightforward set of beliefs about the individual, the state, the market, and political justice. It asserts that the contradictions...

...The chapter focuses on Colombia’s armed conflict, recognised as one of the longest internal armed conflicts in the world. With over 50 years of violence, and more than 60 peace agreements between the government and armed groups, the country has attempted a range of transitional justice mechanisms...

...This chapter examines both the ‘uploading’ and the ‘downloading’ dimensions of Europeanization in justice and home affairs. Germany has been quite active – and in some cases, such as Schengen and Europol – also relatively successful in trying to ‘upload’ domestic preferences and models...

...While criminal justice emphasizes the role of law as an instrument of control, the study of civil justice presents an alternative view of the law as a resource. The criminal branch of the Giustizia Vecchia enforced market rules in partnership with the guilds, but parallel to this was a civil branch...

...This study has revealed an alternative picture of Venetian justice as mild and forgiving, where the full rigour of the law was rarely enforced. Only token punishments were applied to those who submitted to court authority and expressed due contrition, and sentencing was usually adjusted in response...