Question.2905 - nstructions(active tab) > > Read the complete "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (Link also found under Chapter 8 tab). Chaffee defines natural law ethics as "the ethical theory based on the view that moral values can be discovered in nature by using the faculty of reason" (Chaffee 469). > > 1. What sources (thinkers, traditions, beliefs) of MLK's ethics does he reference in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail?" > > 2. The heart of King's philosophical argument is based on an appeal to universal values (a natural law) that transcends all cultures and time periods. Explain what you consider to be some of the strengths of this argument. Then identify some potential questions or problems that such a view must confront. > > 3. Below are some quotations from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Choose one, or select another of your choosing that you believe has particular relevance today. Explain how or why. > > “All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.” > “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” > “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” > “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” > “But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.” > > > > the link :https://bb.wpunj.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_22_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_82037_1%26url%3D
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