Justice is administered in trials.
The term judgment , which comes from the Latin iudicium , has various uses. It refers, for example, to the faculty of the soul that allows us to distinguish between good and evil or between truth and falsehood. Judgment is, on the other hand, an opinion , a verdict or an opinion .
The judgment is formed by a subject (the concept of the object of the judgment), a predicate (the concept that is applied to the subject) and the copula (which establishes whether what is thought is proper or not to the object of the judgment).
“The human being is arrogant” is an example of a judgment, where “human being” is the subject, “superb” is the predicate, and “is” is the copula. “In my opinion, you are acting wrongly,” on the other hand, shows how the term can be used in a sentence.
Judgment is also the state of sound reason that is opposed to madness or delirium: "Your father seems to have lost his mind; there is no way we can comply with his demands" , "The president is a man of judgment, who does not make decisions lightly" .
The administration of justice
The trial is also linked to justice since it is a legal controversy between parties who submit to a court. The trial assumes that there is a support of rights or interests that are contrary to what is defended by the opposing party: "I am going to sue all the journalists who slandered me" , "My brother started a lawsuit against the company that fired him without cause and did not pay him the corresponding compensation" , "The trial ended with the conviction of all the accused" .
Human beings have imposed their own rules over those of other living beings, hurting without being hurt, demanding without accepting demands. But our most outstanding, and sad, characteristic is not the damage we cause to other species, but to ourselves. Below are some examples of trials in which the accused were sentenced despite their innocence .
Judges are responsible for resolving disputes and guaranteeing rights.
Unfair trials
Socrates : The Athens of his time was still suffering the consequences of the confrontation with the Spartans, which led the people to doubt the benefits of democracy . But Socrates insisted that there was no better system, and he did not hesitate to oppose his government to express his ideas. This led to him being sentenced to death by poisoning.
Jesus Christ : His self-proclamation as the son of God was just one step on the road to becoming one of the greatest controversies in the history of religion. His numerous miracles, his statements and his teachings based on metaphors and acts of faith are not far from a modern-day magic show, and no magician is hung from a cross and brutally murdered.
The Salem Witches : The alleged witches were women accused by citizens of carrying out various satanic practices, but the story goes that the judges never required them to undergo organized investigation processes, but instead relied on rumors to send them to a horrible death. This took place at the end of the 17th century in the former province of Massachusetts Bay, in the United States.
Jan Hus was a scholar of religion and philosophy born in the Czech Republic in the second half of the 14th century, who worked as a professor at Charles University in Prague. After being ordained a priest, he took advantage of his position to criticize the various corrupt acts of the Church, such as excessive enrichment and persecution of infidels. His goal was to turn it into an institution absolutely detached from materialism, which preached by example. Hus encouraged his followers to ignore the words of his colleagues, assuring them that they were not trustworthy people; he went so far as to say that the Pope was the Antichrist himself. He defended his convictions to the end, and for this he was condemned to death at the stake.