morals of the Nuremberg Trial
Did the Nuremberg trial have any moral reasoning backing it? ... This theory will be used in this essay to help answer questions surrounding the Nuremberg Trial. The questions to be discussed in this essay ask how Dworkin’s theory would deal with the issues surrounding the Nuremberg trial? Whether Dworkin’s theory would justify the trial? And whether his theory would provide a convincing approach to the issues raised in the trial? ... According to Dworkin’s theory of law the issue of the trials and convictions at the Nuremberg would be based highly on the issues of both legal and moral reasoning. ... ” (Altman, 2001) Considering this, Dworkin’s theory would have based the trial on the legal laws that were in place taking in to high consideration that these laws were morally right in favor of both sides and the final judgment would be as accurate as possible, based on the rules of Natural Law. Using Dowrkin’s theory, the judges involved in the trial would have to consider the evidence and the facts at hand in order to make a decision. ... If this trial at Nuremberg became a hard case to decide on (which seems not to have been the case) the judges determining the final verdict, after considering all the evidence and facts would be entirely based on their moral decisions. ... In asking if the Nuremberg trial and the convictions could have been justified from the perspective of Dworkin’s theory, I would have to say no. ... ” (Altman, 2001) Taking this point into account, Dworkin would not justify the Nuremberg trial because the opposite of his theory was what happened.