Justice Essay

My theme of this paper is justice, which an essential element for the government to serve the well-being of people and also related to peoples’ relationship to the state. Justice is the key to a healthy state that has good intentions for its people, and it is also necessary to disobey unjust laws imposed by the state

I define advocacy as the justice and civil duty in terms of relying on one’s conscience to face injustice, because conscience is a priority and law comes after that. Throughout this essay, I will relate Luca Giordano’s “Justice” to Henry David Thoreau 's “Civil Disobedi¬ence,” Martin Luther King’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail,” Nietzsche’s “Apollonianism and Dionysianism,” and Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” to relate each writer's idea of justice to my definition of advocacy.

Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was born in Naples, Italy and had a very productive life. He was especially popular in Spain, and most of his works were in churches or palaces. His painting, “Justice,” was created as a fresco, a painting on a plas¬tered wall in Florence. He depicts justice as a powerful force with a positive sense to it, as if there is a celebration of justice on earth and in heaven. The figures in his painting are balanced and symmetrical, such as Justice sits in the center with a sword in her right hand and a scale in her left. The scale, or the typical balance, symbolizes equality and fairness. Because she holds the balance, it is symbolic of her own calm and fair characteristic, as she also has a peaceful expression. There are many angels above her, where there is one appreciating the power of justice by playing a horn, and another holding a torch that symbolizes injustice lightened up. The ostrich looks up at the heavens and see...

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I define advocacy as the justice and civil duty in terms of relying on one’s conscience to face injustice, because conscience is a priority and law comes after that. I argue that justice is an essential element for the government to serve the well-being of people and also related to peoples’ relationship to the state. Moreover, it is important for each individual to follow one’s own conscience, to be able to disobey unjust laws imposed by the state to disobey unjust laws imposed by the state. Terrorist attacks can be considered as a way to fight for justice for those who do it, but I think Luther’s nonviolent way of fighting for justice is a more calm and logical way. However, from the 2014 winter Olympic terrorist attacks in Sochi, I recognized that terrorists have a reason for those horrifying attacks, which is to fight for what they believe is right.