The human race is a slave to sin and under the power of it. Yet even in our fallen state, there remains a measure of rationality and an innate awareness of morality. This inner consciousness is not sufficient to save, nor is it adequate to produce faith apart from the introduction of grace. Human intellect should not be trusted as “an impartial arbiter capable of standing outside the influence of the ego and returning a perfectly objective judgment.” Nevertheless, it is an indication of the creative handiwork of God. Paul describes the problem of sin as pervasive in Romans; indeed, he indicates it is universal.
Huck is closest related to Montag because of the way that they want to break away from society and learn things on their own. Captain Beatty is like Miss Watson because they are both a hypocritical part of these two novels. There are other like character but the similarities are minor and thus might just be coincidental. But the aforementioned characters also stand as symbols for ideas. Huck and Montag stand for freedom and self-reliance because they search for what is right within themselves and not what the rest do.
He uses society’s inability to scold specific actions to create a sense of ease about the crimes the characters commit which fuels further moral blindness. To contrast the viciousness of society, Dubus uses natures’ innocence to emphasize that there is still morality left in the world. Overall Dubus’s vision of a post-modern society is one that is chock-full of people who are unable to see beyond their own needs and will do anything possible, even it goes against their morals, to create a perfect society for
In the vigilantism cases, although we could all relate to the frustration involved for the actors, we all agree that one must stay within the bounds of the law to seek out justice. The next discussion involved civil disobedience and we found that we agreed that civil disobedience has been helpful historically to help change the laws and improve our society. However, the general consensus on civil disobedience was also that the acts of disobedience must be done in a peaceful manner for the acts to be effective. The final acts of crimes among professionals had another anonymous decision. Our team found that we did not agree with those professionals who chose to commit crimes.
In Obedience to Authority, Milgram introduces an intriguing idea about obedience and its limitation through an experiment. His skepticism of the devastating incidents like the Holocaust, triggered the experiment to measure the willingness of people to obey the authority. Throughout the experiment, Milgram could conclude that although people do not favor obeying the authority, they still obey. The historical figures, such as Martin Luther King and Plato, have distinct idea about authority and obedience. So this result influences the different set of social relations introduced by both King and Plato: Milgram’s result support Plato’s ideas of ideal society while it King’s idea opposes Milgram’s Result.
Dr. King recognizes that this is a potential flaw in collective action, but the justice pursued by his movement prevents his collective from such ill effects. Dr. King’s affinity for collective action is largely due to the nature of his problem. Just as Gandhi in India did, when faced with ridiculous oppression, King moves people to nonviolently protest such oppression. When the oppressors violently crack down, the lunacy of the oppression is made apparent and realized by the masses. Dr. King uses group action to reveal to the larger group to poor state of
Secondly, they authors state, “We need an explanation for why some people, but not others, are able to resist the impulses that nature has given them.” Because we don’t know why someone does something and another person do not, brings us down to a matter of choice. Free will can have a small part in the way people act. Summary: According to Rachel’s, we don’t just do things to do it, we do them because it is behavior that we constantly repeat and most likely get rewarded for. Also, they argue that any of us might behave badly of we were unlucky enough to be in the wrong circumstances. Lastly, they question whether people are just born bad.
It varies from place to place. Humans are humans, and so we should view things the same. But there are outside influences in cultures that make us see the discussed views differently. There is no truth in defining what is just and unjust but we are persuaded by believing what is in our morals by following the evidence, logic and reasoning behind each argument made. The author says “and one ought to bring up the question whether it is those who are sane or those who are demented who speak at the right moment”.
However, oppression is a form of a mind game as well that many of us do not recognize. We recognize oppression as states of unbalanced power but fail to realize the creation of distort power. Power is given not created, thus recognizing the distorted power or disturbance is the first step to breaking free from the oppressed state. Martin Luther King is known for breaking the oppression between black and white powers. King’s article, “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” describes the ways to confront the unbalance of influence.
Examine the view that poverty is beneficial to society Poverty is the social and economic state of either living below a particular standard or average. It can be defined in two ways, the first being absolute poverty which is the inability to afford the five basic essentials that are warmth, clothing, food, shelter and water. A positive for this definition of poverty is that it allows us to make comparisons with other cultures. On the other a hand a negative for this definition of poverty is that many people would feel that a lack of any of these essentials is destitution not poverty. The second way poverty can be defined is as relative poverty which is the inability to afford the average standard of living for a particular society.