Question 1:
What does it mean to give each person his/her due? How has the meaning of “giving each his due” changed over time?
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Plato discussed the theory of Justice in a famous from ‘The Republic’. Plato explained that justice does not mean doing good to friends and do evil to enemies. To do evil to anybody including your enemies is inconsistent with the most elementary conception of mortality. Justice involves the well-being of the people. The aim of the ruler is the well being of the citizens who are committed to his care. Justice means to give each person his or her due. Well being of the people includes giving each person his due. Event in modern times ‘giving each his due’ is an important part of justice. However, what is due to a person has changed from time to time of Plato. In the present times, Justice is linked to our understanding of what is due to each person as a human being.
According to Kant, human beings possess dignity. Thus each person should be given an opportunity to develop his abilities so that he can achieve his goal. For what is due to him is that he should be treated as what is in the light of his capacity and his training, while what is due from him is the honest performance of those tasks that the place accorded to him requires.
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