Virtue Ethics And Teleology

Additionally, he did not commit first-degree homicide because he didn’t plan to kill Bob. When he saw Bob earlier, he didn’t attempt to kill rather, he tried to hide from him. (pg 44) He didn’t pull it out when the socs came to them originally. (pg 54 and 55) He chose to try to resolve it peacefully but that didn’t work because David grabbed Ponyboy.”(pg 55) They forced his hand and he had to stab Bob in order to save himself and Ponyboy otherwise Pony would have drowned in the fountain and Johnny would have been dead too. In conclusion, Johnny did not commit a first-degree

Claim: However, Johnny still can be considered innocent of murder because he killed Bob out of self defense, he had to defend Ponyboy, and the Socs were the ones who provoked the fight.

To begin, Johnny is innocent for the murder of Bob concidering that Bob was killing Johnny’s third party Ponyboy, leaving Johnny to use self defence. “ ‘I had

The murder of Bob Shelton occurred because earlier that night Johnny Cade and his friends had been flirting with Bob’s and the Socs’ girlfriends. Bob and four of his friends confronted Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis early the next morning around 2:00 am at a park fountain. David, one of the Socs, began to drown Ponyboy Curtis in the fountain. Johnny Cade lost all sanity and knifed Bob Shelton, who was doing no harm to Cade or Curtis, in order to stop David from drowning Ponyboy Curtis. Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because he carried a switchblade with intent to kill whoever jumped him, killed a person who was not attacking his friend, and lastly, fled the scene of the crime with his friend.

Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because he had the intent to kill. Ponyboy talks about Johnny and the previous attack by saying, “He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body…” (Hinton 34). This shows that Johnny was changed by the previous

Ponyboy tells Sherry Valance on page 31, “He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body.” This supports how Johnny is guilty by saying he would kill Bob, so he wanted to when the socs jumped him and Ponyboy. On page 49, the book states “He was clutching his switchblade, and it was dark to the hilt.” This explains that Johnny stabbed him all the way down to the hilt, which is so deep it would obviously kill him.” If he attacked him somewhere else, or did not stab so deep, it would not have been fatal. Conclusively, Johnny should be convicted of murder because he wanted to kill Bob and he could have attacked him some other way that would not have proven

In this important letter, the author reveals that Johnny realized his life was not worth much, so he wanted to help the people in the fire out of the church when he saw the fire to save the lives of children worth more than him, and he can die knowing that he did some good in his life and not be just worthless by caring for others. The evidence in the book and the indirect characterization by Hinton shows that Johnny is an IB caring

Johnny Reeves knows what it is like to be prosecuted by the KKK sense he was kicked out of the Klan for being caught forcing himself on a school girl on page 113. The KKK was very important to Johnny Reeves, and without him being in the KKK the story would have been really different. Johnny Reeves had a lot of power in the story. You can see this when Johnny said, “it is up to us to lock our daughters until they learn to behave until we destroy in them the wanton of Satan.” (Witness page 21) How this shows Johnny Reeves power is because he is telling parents what to with their own kids. And they listen to him. Also Constable Johnson tried to stop Johnny Reeves from jumping off the bridge, and this shows us that Johnny was important to the people in the town or else they wouldn’t have cared if he jumped off the bridge or not, but instead they tried to talk him down. Johnny also uses his power to try to get his listeners to join him in his causes by saying stuff like “come

Johnny is justified in what he did and did it because the socs were about to drown Ponyboy so Johnny had to act. The text states ”I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you” (Hinton 57). This evidence proves that Ponyboy was about to be drowned, and Johnny had to step in and stab Bob in order to save Pony. Therefore Johnny is not guilty of murder because he was acting in defense of his friend who was being drowned.

If someone gets into trouble, he is willing to take the blame for anyone in the gang, even if it gets him jailed. Johnny is willing to take one for the team, too. In chapter 6, Johnny didn’t have to go save those kids’ lives in the burning church. He went in and saved all of them, knowing how dangerous it was. He also sacrificed himself for Ponyboy because he got him out right before the church collapsed and Johnny got caught inside the church, taking burns and eventually dying.

Knowing that Elizabeth was the innocent one, he is incited to act on his wife’s behalf. John knows that Abby is making a scene out of all this just to get revenge on him and Elizabeth for rejecting her. He makes his way to the courtroom to plead his thoughts about the girls lying their way in getting revenge on the ones that they hate. John’s feeling of guilt is growing stronger because he knows that if it wasn’t for him having the affair with the harlot, none of this would be happening, and his wife would not be in accusation. When he informed the judges about his story of the girls, the judge was doubting his actions and Abi started throwing another fit to make it seem like he was

He tries to explain the lies of the girls and save his wife, but the court won’t have it. He is pressed for having courage and standing up for the truth. John

Johnny’s first reason of prosecution is that he murdered Robert for reasons other than self defense. Evidence shows that Johnny explicitly said, “I didn’t mean to… but they were drowning you,…” (pg. 74). This quote shows that Johnny killed Robert only because they were drowning Ponyboy, not because they were hurting him. Johnny’s second reason for prosecution is that he used a weapon. Evidence shows that Ponyboy tells us, “Johnny’s hand went to his back pocket and I remembered his switchblade.” (pg.54). This quote shows that Johnny used his switchblade when he shouldn’t have. He shouldn’t have used it because violence is never the answer and because he shouldn’t have been carrying the weapon in his pocket anyways. The last reason Johnny should

On the other hand, teleological systems state that the "end result produced by an action" (Rae, 2000, p. 17) significantly affect the ethical decision making of a person. Relativism meanwhile the ethical development of an individual is directly related to what the culture of the society he belongs to believe as right or wrong, and the person's preferences. An individual's preferences are affected by six pillars of character as identified by the Josephson Institute (2010) which are claimed to be apolitical, not based on religion or culture.

Historically ethics was studied from a philosophical aspect and viewed as the science of morals. Ethics had been defined as the principles of moral conduct that govern our behavior. Our ethical behavior is developed from various factors, to include our environment, family and beliefs. The origins of ethics can be traced back to the fifth century, BC ( Banner, 1968, pg.67). Plato, Socrates and Aristotle are among the early teachers of ethics.