Hammurabi’S Code: Justice For Survival
“Justice is the maintenance or administration of what is just, especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments” (Merriam). Any civilization or community needs a judicial system that keeps it from becoming a bestial or barbaric state. “Might makes right” is the old barbaric concept that the stronger people will dominate the weaker. This can not be the only governing concept in a civil community. If a civilization wishes to be successful, there must be a judicial system that upholds equality and promotes the good of all, not one specific individual or group. Hammurabi was a great Babylonian king who ruled from about 1792-1750 BC. Hammurabi believed that he was chosen by the gods to deliver the law to his people. In fact, Mesopotamian cities were modeled to be earthly copies of the divine, each to its own god. In the preface to the law code, he states, "Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted......
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