So let's start by describing the basic form of a Frankfurt example, nowadays called a Frankfurt case. And we start with somebody doing something that seems odious. We could have used Damien and his stealing my money, but I think that you'll find that hard to get really worked up about, so let's use a fictional example of somebody who does something really bad. So imagine two sisters, Anna and Beth, and they're in middle age now, but they've had a slightly fractious relationship through their lives, largely because Beth feels a strong need to be the special one. And Beth has managed to cultivate the impression in Anna, aided and abetted to some degree by the parents, that Beth is the favorite. And their mother dies, and among the papers that …show more content…
She, the mother, loved them both equally, and she, the mother, wanted Anna to know that from the grave, so to speak. And it's a touching letter, and Beth reads it, and a little bit of her starts to be touched, and then she thinks, no, Anna I can't see this, and she burns it. So Beth burns the letter. Why does she burn the letter? Because she doesn't want Anna to know that she, Beth, wasn't the favorite. Anna thinks and will always think that Beth was more loved than she, Anna, was, and Beth doesn't want to do anything to change that impression. OK. So that's a pretty odious thing to do. Now, we'll fix that as our central example, the odious thing to do, and then we're going to change certain details of the story and then ask questions about how that changes Beth's blameability or culpability for burning the letter. So first case, just as I described it, she burnt the letter. There was nobody interfering, nobody watching, nothing unusual happening. She just did it out of her desire to retain a …show more content…
This is a central example of the case in which somebody is blameworthy for doing something. Second case, our first Frankfurt case. Suppose that when she burnt the letter, what happened was this: There was a third sister, call her Eve. Eve is kind of evil, and Eve also took pleasure out of Anna's feeling that she was the unloved one. And Eve, like Beth, wants Anna not to see that letter. And Eve is not just evil, but she's like derangedly, psychotically evil. And Eve says to Beth, I will kill you if you don't burn that letter. And Beth's had some experience with Eve, and she knows that when Eve makes threats like that, even hyperbolic threats that sound crazy, she is going to carry them out. She really is that psychotic in just that way. And so Beth knows that she's going to be killed if she doesn't burn the letter. And furthermore, Eve says, and if you at any time later tell Anna about this letter, I'll kill you, too. So before burning the letter, Eve has threatened Beth to such a degree that it would be crazy for Beth not to burn the letter. That's really the only option for her. And yet what's going on in Beth's head is this: "I want to burn the letter. This letter must be burned. Anna must not find out about her mother's love for
Barb blames Janice for Anne's death to hurt her and make her feel guilty, not knowing that Janice already feels guilty but does not express it. However, Barb does not think about the challenges Janice might have endured but is angry because she is not the ‘ideal Janice’ that she had been expecting. Barb is too busy and eager wanting to express her anger towards Janice that she cannot relate to Janice’s problems and the struggles that she goes through. Barb’s lack of sympathy towards the unexpected changes in Janice’s life only results in a bigger gap in their relationship. Once Barb and Janice start talking, Barb is again angered by Janice’s quietness and her unwillingness to strengthen their relationship. However, she does not make an effort herself to understand why. Barb says to Janice: “You told us the facts. I don’t know one damn thing about you, the person” (36). Barb is annoyed and frustrated by Janice keeping to herself, she cannot understand her. Barb wants a strong relationship with her as sisters. For Janice, the sister relationship is too difficult and would rather prefer being friends. However, Barb does not acknowledge or accept Janice’s different views but expects Janice to want the same. Barb misunderstands the quietness of Janice and takes it personally, thinking that she wants to keep a distance from her and does not want to open up. Barb does not think of the opposite. What if Janice can’t
There are a few reasons why she is innocent too but I still think she is guilty. My third reason is there was no one else in the house when it happened. She may not be guilty because the grief she showed for her father. In article 3 it states, “She showed a lot of grief in her letters saying she was innocent.” Also it says that, “THere was no one else in the house all of this happened.” She wouldn't have showed grief if she knew she had done it. So if she didn't than she would show the grief like she did. If there was no one in the house than who could have have done it. The only person is LIzzie. That's my third reason.
Celia struck Robert Newsom in the head and killed him. At first I thought that Celia’s crime motive was the sexual exploitation, this was not the real reason. The real reason was that she was afraid of losing her love Gorge. I believe that if Gorge did not give her the ultimatum she would not commit the crime. The fear of losing him made Celia to take this decision. I cannot really know if I capable to kill someone, but I would do anything to defend myself. What I think is that Celia committed this crime for the wrong reason or the wrong motive. However, I do think Robert Newsom deserved
Moreover, the readers feel that by receiving this attention, Slater wants to clear her conscience of the guilt of all the
Since there wasn’t much care for accusations made against the accused, all of Europe seemed to be in a frenzy. The diary of a young Protestant boy, as seen in Document 5 of Group B, showed a state of confusion and because of the instability of communities. No matter where a person turned, Hell would be right there as well despite the Church’s useless efforts. The state of chaos Europe was in was only hurt by the constant blame of the innocent people in the community.
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words” (John Ruskin). This quote I believe describes Abigail Williams and Betty Parris very well. They are both to blame for the salem witch trials and the execution of 20 people. They both were deceiving and wanted to get away with a lie but turned into a bigger one. I would mostly blame Abigail williams for everything but if it wasn't for Betty, who acted possessed, this whole thing wouldn't have existed. Abigail just continued her lie so she wouldn't get in trouble.
This is case that faces Mary Barnett. The issue in this case is that On January 23, the litigant, Mary Barnett, left Chicago to visit her life partner in San Francisco having left her six-month-old little girl, Alison, unattended in the apartment. Mary Barnett returned home a week later to find that her child had died of dehydration. She called the police and at first, to let them know that she had left her kid with a baby sitter. She later expressed that she had left the child and she didn 't mean to return, and that she knew Alison would die in a day or two. She has been accused of wrongdoing of second-degree murder; purposeful homicide without intention. In the event that she is sentenced, she could face up to eighteen years in prison. This piece of writing tries to give the verdict of the case after critically examining both prosecution and defendant side.
Beth is a static and flat character; she does not change throughout the novel, and, on surface levels, does not appear to want to change. She is stuck in her ways of wanting everyone to think her life is still perfect. At a party in the beginning of the novel she avoids questions about her son or answers them falsely to keep her imperfect life hidden from the outside world. One example of this is when other guests at the party asked questions about Conrad and she states “He was sick for awhile...He’s fine, now.”(661) this is one way she tries to avoid questions. She put out a false sense of well being to allow herself to feel better about others opinions of her. The fight within herself to accept everything that has happened, Buck dying and Conrad trying to kill himself, has shut her off into isolation. This self induced isolation has lead her to believe everything Conrad did was to hurt her. In a later fight with Calvin she expresses this by “That whole vicious thing. He made it as vicious, as sickening as he
She and her friends remembered the right things to do and if they didn’t things would have changed. Lina and poppy are sisters this as shows Lina is responsible because she has to take care of poppy and granny is too old to do that.So lina has to prove this in the text it states ‘’Her sister's name is poppy’’. Lina brought poppy out of Ember this shows that Lina is responsible because she brought poppy which means she didn't want poppy to be left. So to prove this in the text it states ‘’I’ve brought poppy’’.Lina through the note down to Ember to tell everyone everything like how to get out and were everything this shows that Lina is responsible because she didn’t want everyone to be left behind in the darkness. To prove this in the text it states ‘’We could send our
"The sort of person that Eichmann appeared to be did not square either with the deeds for which he was being tried or with the traditional preconceptions about the kind of person who does evil" (Geddes). Throughout the trial, Arendt is conflicted by what she wants to seen when she analyzes Eichmann, and struggles greatly when she finds he does not embody the crude and inhumane thoughts she associated with the history of the Holocaust. It is this absence of the profound hatred of Jews, along with the normalcy he possesses, that creates the emblematic role of banal evil for Adolf Eichmann.
Abigail is not only a liar she is selfish. She tells lies that hurt others in order to help herself and she is devious. In the court room she announces, "I want to open myself! . . . I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil, I saw him, I wrote in his book, I go back to Jesus, I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah
However, this cannot be said for all victims of guilt as the author makes sure to heed the consequences of
Once Abby says her whole paragraph about her being very close with Jesus and admitting to witchcraft she tries to make the others sound like bad people. Abby then ends with
This paper seeks to canvass the legacy of the Nuremberg Trial; the legal justifications and procedural innovations that were once controversial and which through the turn of the century have now come to be regarded as a milestone towards the application of principles of international law, establishment of a permanent international criminal court enshrined under the Rome Statute and setting new precedents for the international community. Furthermore, the author seeks to juxtapose the legal and political justifications given for the
Elizabeth may have a quarrel with her friend; her simplicity would make her focus on solving the problem rather than figuring out who is at fault. This is because the problem is her problem, not her friend.