Custom Writing Service-Criminal Law
you will write a dialogue between yourself and an imaginary Socrates. You will debate the question of free will versus determinism. Remember that the Socratic Method involves asking a series of questions to clarify key words and ideas. In your dialogue, the imaginary Socrates should be asking clarifying questions, and you will be answering them. :
- How do you define human choice? How do you define human event? Are they different?
- Do you think that free will and determinism can coexist in any way?
- Do you agree that every event has an explanatory cause?
- Do you agree that to have an explanatory cause is to not be free?
- How do you define free?
- Is it possible to have external determinism and internal free will?
Imagine that you are a judge preparing to sentence an offender who was just found guilty at a jury trial on two counts of bank robbery. Address the following questions:
- What are the top 5 factors you would consider in fashioning a sentence?
- What would be 2 aggravating and mitigating factors to consider in this case?
- What would you need to know about the defendant to impose a sentence?
- What specific information would you need to know about the offense to aid in sentencing
