Annette Baier: The Need for More Than Justice

We must emphasize that caring for one another it is a relevant matter, because for me where is justice when we do not care for one another. The atmosphere of love is needed to show care for one another. A mothers love to her child is a very good example of both caring and loving of the child. Women are more loving human being and soft hearted then men. When something matter to you the most you do what ever it takes just to seek justification, because of the mere fact the you care about it. What happens in the past can also affect our present and our future. But I myself believe that what ever happened in the past can affect us, but it will only affect us truly if we do not care about our own future, or basically if we do not do anything about our future. Because everyday is a new day and can be a fresh start of something new.

John Rawls: The Theory of Justice

Justice is doing the right thing and at the same time exercising your freedom form it. Because both justice and freedom can collide with each other, as long as you are taking into good consideration the different views of what other people will think on what you think or what you will do. Because again it is not only you who have the rights, you must also think of the rights others have against you or the rights with you. So basically, being free form justice means you are free to do anything, and anything that you do whether it is wrong or right, anyone has the right to judge your action but you are still free to do anything. But also that person must keep in mind the consequences of the actions that he will perform.  People are very greedy in nature and some want things or wealth for themselves because they believe they are the one’s who have worked hard for it and thus they are the one’s who deserved to have that wealth and not share it to other people.

Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously

In the world of politics people have no rights to change the constitutional rights and the only thing that matters when it comes to rights of the citizen is to elect. The person that is elected is granted the power to do anything, even if the power that is granted to that person is to change the constitutional rights of a person. For me there is a difference between moral rights and the rights that a person has. Moral are created by the government and it can be limited by the government. The right of a person to speak should not be limited by the government, but again he can make his own moral right to limit the right to speak, and when that moral right is violated, who ever violated that right will be punish by law. As government you must build a legal right that all citizen will agree with your constitutional rights. You must think whether the right thing that you think you are doing is for the good of the whole and not just for your own self interest. Breaking the law might be wrong in term of legal rights, but in moral nights it can be defended depending on the course of action you will take.

Joel Fienberg: The Nature and Value of Rights

Duty is both a requirement and what we feel we must do because it is right for us. When you have done something willingly, or as an act of duty you have no RIGHT to complain if you were not rewarded because it is something that you voluntarily did. But when someone ask you to do something beyond the requirements given to you, you have the right to receive a reward or an additional duty you did for something by request, and this when you have the right to complain when the reward will not be given to you when in fact it was a promise or a deal you and the other person made before that person requested something from you. I agree with the concept to claim-right, example is when you have hurt your little brother, and your father got mad at you, then you apologized to you father. Why would you apologize to your father when the one you really did hurt was your little brother? For me the importance of having rights as a person is very important. Because having rights shows us that even though other see us as a lesser being the right there is that we have a claim and that we are all equal human beings.

Aristotle: Happiness and Virtue

It is true that too much of something it bad for yourself, because that excess of that something will not only bring badness in you, but you will not find happiness in it. According to Aristotle living a right life is living with happiness and at the same time living with virtue, the mean of everything else. But there are some acts that are just too plain evil that there is no virtue in it. An example is killing a person, it is just pure evil, there is no mean to justify the righteousness of such an evil act. Philosophers are said to be the kind of people that live their life in virtue. I do not really know if this it true or this just what Aristotle thinks because he himself is a also a philosopher himself. Because i really believe that we all are capable of making mistakes,  even in the decisions we make.

Immanuel Kant: The Categorical Imperative

Duty is like serving other people without asking for exchange of anything, it is like you are volunteering yourself because you are willing to serve people. Duty it self is good will. Because form the definition of goodwill it is the act to doing what is good and right. Goodwill can stand on its own, en example is even though you long for death because of you miserable life, or the feeling of unworthiness in yourself however, you still did not commit death because you still believe that there is still hope and that hope can be achieves by the goodness in you, and that goodness that you found n yourself is goodwill. But does really goodwill constitute the indispensable of our very worthiness to be happy? What about some acts that only that person thinks it is his duty to perform it and that he knows he is doing the right thing about it while the rest of the people think it is wrong to perform that particular act. Where is the goodwill and the duty to perform, when it will consequent to hurting other people, but your self, or probably even yourself.

Jame Rachel: The Debate Over Utilitarianism

Just because being happy at doing something does not mean we will not also consider the morality of our own actions. We should consider the consequences of our own actions before we act on doing something. Because the amount of happiness we get in that something that we are doing is more important then anything else. Consider the fact of getting a friend, we do not consider getting a friend make us happy, but the fact we seek for happiness and that having a friend will be the means to bringing an end to that happiness we are seeking. Making a promise to someone is something we should also consider. Because what are the consequences of the it if we do not fulfill that promise to someone we made? I think that justice is different form what a is the right of a particular person. Because justice for me limits the freedom and rights of a person. Where do we get are assumptions form? Based on what i have read we get our assumptions form our parents, religion, and form our own culture, but sometimes this assumptions we have are wrong or should not be trusted.

John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

Happiness is the most important thing we should all look for in our life.  But i believe that true happiness is found in being contented with what you already have. Trying to search too much for something or for happiness will only bring stress to yourself. Sometime what you are looking for, you already have it, you are just too naive, to search for something more that when you realize in the end that you already had for a long time.  Sometimes helping others bring that easy or lightness feeling in ourselves. That all we actually need is that feeling of goodness is us to show ourselves that we can be happy, because doing the right thing no matter what people think about you, deep down you know you did the right thing and you know that you are happy and proud about it. Because you no heavy feeling inside of you, that you did the wrong thin when all you now is that you did it for the right purpose. Pleasure form doing something is also considered as happiness, because you are delighted in what you are doing.

Mary Midgley: Trying Out One’s New Sword

Base on our own understanding about our own culture is and other things that we believe in, it should not be the basis for our judgment on other cultures. Because I really believe that sometimes we people tend to judge right away without even having hard evidence on what we think about that particular culture or even about that person. We forget that when we judge, it is like your other four fingers are also pointing back at you, and you are showing no respect for the person you are pointing at. You will never understand what others believe in unless you dedicate some of your time to that particular belief and learn everything form it without comparing other beliefs form it.  It is like the only person that truly know yourself are the one’s that live with you you in your own home. They know more about you rather than the people you go outside with or out of your own home.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Master and Slave Morality

Well I would rather be a humble and weak person if you ask me. But being that person does not mean i will not stand up for what I believe in or just be a matter where people can bully me around and scare me. there is a saying that goes like this “the strong will live, and the weak will die” for me this saying is just as exactly what the master and salve morality is almost all about. But base on what I see being a master is like having that power over other people that sometimes you forget that you also are just a human, and that the ones below you are also capable of doing things that you are also capable of. Looking down on other people or on the “slaves” just does not show respect for them and at the same time just shows how a tyrant you can be. But I do not believe that there can not be any freedom when you are a slave. Being a slave does not mean anything less weak than being a master. We are all just the same beings that were all created by God!