Martin Luther King Jr Vs Socrates Essay
Martin Luther King Junior and Socrates argue for a different meanings and reasoning’s behind the differences of a single person and the law by which we have to follow. They were written many years apart but they are still very similar to the ideas of justice. The way that the two argue are almost completely opposite depending on the way that they feel towards authority and inner direction or moral guidance to lead you by. In the Crito, Socrates provides a lot of different arguments to understand why he refuses to escape from jail and avoid certain death, even though he believes that his sentence is unjust in its own. In the Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. is speaking to Birmingham’s clergymen who requested that he stop demonstrating
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Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, he talks about a much different feeling towards the law. In an attempt to change the laws of segregation in the South, King directly breaks the laws and then accepts his punishment for doing so. King thinks that the segregation issue must be solved by “compromise and negotiation” but he also thinks that the breaking of laws is necessary to form the creative pressure through which the true understanding of an issue can be acknowledged and then negotiated upon after that. King states that “the laws that violate and degrade humanity are inflicted upon the minority who have no voice in the voting progresses are unjust.” He also points out that segregation “degrades human personality,” black people in the south are not allowed to vote nor do not have a voice in any of the democratic processes. This is all leading to the way that King defines segregation as an unjust law, and the separation of human beings as sinful. Martin Luther King, Jr. also believes in a higher law than just a man-made law and it is this law that he shapes his actions around. St. Augustine states that “an unjust law is no law at all” leading King to believe that unjust laws that fall under this should be broken. This is a strong argument because the main audience was the clergymen who look to the bible for guidance and follow what is
Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, he talks about a much different feeling towards the law. In an attempt to change the laws of segregation in the South, King directly breaks the laws and then accepts his punishment for doing so. King thinks that the segregation issue must be solved by “compromise and negotiation” but he also thinks that the breaking of laws is necessary to form the creative pressure through which the true understanding of an issue can be acknowledged and then negotiated upon after that. King states that “the laws that violate and degrade humanity are inflicted upon the minority who have no voice in the voting progresses are unjust.” He also points out that segregation “degrades human personality,” black people in the south are not allowed to vote nor do not have a voice in any of the democratic processes. This is all leading to the way that King defines segregation as an unjust law, and the separation of human beings as sinful. Martin Luther King, Jr. also believes in a higher law than just a man-made law and it is this law that he shapes his actions around. St. Augustine states that “an unjust law is no law at all” leading King to believe that unjust laws that fall under this should be broken. This is a strong argument because the main audience was the clergymen who look to the bible for guidance and follow what is