Tag: Justify

If the End Doesn’t Justify the Means, What Does?

Historically, moral philosophers have tended to fall into one of three camps. There are the consequentialists, who define good and evil actions in terms of the benefits and harms they bring about. There are the deontologists, who call an action good or evil depending on whether it conforms to a part...

If the End Doesn’t Justify the Means, What Does?

Historically, moral philosophers have tended to fall into one of three camps. There are the consequentialists, who define good and evil actions in terms of the benefits and harms they bring about. There are the deontologists, who call an action good or evil depending on whether it conforms to a part...

How Belief in a Just World Attempts to Justify Racism

Before taking this academic journey, the phrase "just world beliefs," was foreign to me, uncharted territory. Frankly, I had no idea how someone's ideas about procedural or distributive justice impacted their racial attitudes. Whether someone believed the world was inherently just, tha...