Twelve Angry Men Philosophy
Lauren Berdecia
Professor Stanland
Philosophy PH- 101- I
Ethics Paper
April 21st, 2015 Ethics within Twelve Angry Men The film Twelve Angry Men depicts the story about twelve people serving as jury who has different attitudes, personalities, and emotions and approaches the premeditated homicide case. These attributes have affected them to deliberate the case and face a responsibility so a unanimous decision has been achieved. The main idea is to display and determine whether those men have acted as a team and to analyze if they are practicing the group dynamics as they evaluated the evidence, testimony and personal agendas. In the organization behavior perspective, individual personality, mood and emotions are among the barriers and restrictions in making a decision. This is the responsibility of them on how to encounter such differences - either decision, or argument. This movie can relate to philosophers arguments such as David B. Wong’s “Relativism” and Jeremy Bentham “The Principle of Utility”. While eleven jurors voted guilty the one juror has an open mind and believes this boy is too young to die without a trial being discussed. In any case juries should have a discussion based on the trial and not jump to conclusions.
The story is based upon a young eighteen-year old Hispanic boy who lives in the slums and is on trial for deliberately stabbing his father. Final closing arguments have been presented, a visibly tired judge instructs the jury to decide whether the boy is guilty of murder. The judge has made it clear that if the jury decides he is a guilty verdict that he will be punished with the death penalty. With this said, juror number eight, Jack Lemmon, decides to be the protagonist. Each and every word delivered by him shows dedication. He always equipped himself with strong views and holds his own concrete philosophy of being positive. He showed his seriousness to
Professor Stanland
Philosophy PH- 101- I
Ethics Paper
April 21st, 2015 Ethics within Twelve Angry Men The film Twelve Angry Men depicts the story about twelve people serving as jury who has different attitudes, personalities, and emotions and approaches the premeditated homicide case. These attributes have affected them to deliberate the case and face a responsibility so a unanimous decision has been achieved. The main idea is to display and determine whether those men have acted as a team and to analyze if they are practicing the group dynamics as they evaluated the evidence, testimony and personal agendas. In the organization behavior perspective, individual personality, mood and emotions are among the barriers and restrictions in making a decision. This is the responsibility of them on how to encounter such differences - either decision, or argument. This movie can relate to philosophers arguments such as David B. Wong’s “Relativism” and Jeremy Bentham “The Principle of Utility”. While eleven jurors voted guilty the one juror has an open mind and believes this boy is too young to die without a trial being discussed. In any case juries should have a discussion based on the trial and not jump to conclusions.
The story is based upon a young eighteen-year old Hispanic boy who lives in the slums and is on trial for deliberately stabbing his father. Final closing arguments have been presented, a visibly tired judge instructs the jury to decide whether the boy is guilty of murder. The judge has made it clear that if the jury decides he is a guilty verdict that he will be punished with the death penalty. With this said, juror number eight, Jack Lemmon, decides to be the protagonist. Each and every word delivered by him shows dedication. He always equipped himself with strong views and holds his own concrete philosophy of being positive. He showed his seriousness to