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
The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it. Based on Just War Theory, the proportionality of killing these people is that their deaths are outweighed by the justice that will bring to the judicial system. Shelton believes the system to be corrupt, focusing instead on conviction rates rather than making sure the right person is placed behind bars. By killing these people Shelton can put a new mindset into the “system” because those affected by the killings will want the right man punished rather since they now know how it feels to be wronged. All the killings made by Shelton were to people who were directly showed how flawed the system was.
John Locke versus Niccolo Machiavelli Despite their contradictions on “sovereignty”, John Locke and Niccolo Machiavelli (two philosophers of the Renaissance era) shared one conspicuous concern, and that is their concern for the betterment of society. It is plain to see that both philosophers did have common ways of thinking regarding what a ruler should and should not do. It is ‘how’ a ruler should behave in order to win sovereignty of his state that led to a divergence in their opinions. I certainly am inspired with the Lockean way of thinking, but I am not sure how realistic such a way of thinking is when applied to our modern times. The ‘Lockean Liberalism’ is a paradox only in theory.
He firmly thought that God is a righteous one who at the end of time will deal with those who rejected him. Augustine`s argument that evil is a `deprivation of good` rather than a positive substance created by God has been supported by some modern thinkers. Brian Davies describes evil as `a gap between what there is and what there ought to be`. Augustine`s argument that evil has resulted from the abuse of human free will has also been supported by modern thinkers. It seems clear that humans choosing to act in the wrong ways cause much of the evil and suffering in the world.
He also believed that the most important characteristic of our personalities is created by how we treat others. While Chuang Tzu preached that things are categorized as good or evil. Everything is everything, and we make our own opinions on the level of goodness or the amount of evil. Chuang Tzu is also a complete anarchist. He believed that the world “does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed.” He also proclaimed that good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices”(4). Paine believed that, in society, government was necessary in order to keep the vices of the governed in check. Paine argued, “Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one”(5). Thus, Paine reasoned that because government could be unbearably evil that it must be limited. Paine’s view of the ideal form of government was premised upon “a principal in nature…that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered”(7).
Hester Prynne exemplifies the definition of human strength as well as the positive outcome of adversity. The difference between the way Chillingworth and Dimmesdale handles adversity from Hester is the ability to hide and express their emotions. Unlike Hester who calmly and thoroughly evaluates every adversity, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale, both mentally weak, allow their feelings to take control of them causing them to lose sight of the goal and fall into disarray. Attitude while handling these grievances are important because of the way they interact with ones actions. Allowing your emotions to overwhelm you displays weakness causing negative traits and habits to form leading to a demoralizing fate.
The Presence of Evil My personal belief is that evil is categorized as a deontological. I believe this because I feel that with deontology it’s up to the people to decide, in regards to respect and honesty, whether they want to be a person who can be trusted and act on good consciousnessor one who cannot. Teleological views do not match my definition of evil, because I truly believe that evil isn’t what makes people unhappy, it’s the events and the people that are surrounding the situation that can bring out the evil, which in turn makes the situation and the people involved in it, evil. September 11th 2001 was a day that will go down in the history of the United States, as the day evil struck our great country. These
They instead believe people are freewilled and responsible for their own actions. Human behavior was considered to be motivated by a hedonistic rationalle, where people weighed the potential pleasure of an act against the possible pain or punishment. The classical or enlightened thinkers were concerned with protecting the rights of the people from the corruption and excess of the current legal institutions. The barbarous punishments were not the onlyproblems. At the time crime was very poorly defined and due process was either absent or ignored.