Famous Thinker King Jr. And Daniel Dennett

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Famous Thinkers Paper By; Karla M. Young December 18, 2011 PHL/458 David Jung Introduction; Creative thinkers challenge prevailing thoughts, conceptions and ideas in the environments that support them. They analyze, critique, and take apart the social, environmental, political and even religious factors that help comprise dominant or accepted thoughts. For obvious reasons, their ideas, like those who conceived or introduced and outlined those generally accepted create quite a stir. Among some of the most famous thinkers of the twentieth century were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Daniel C. Dennett. While each of them examined and explored different aspects of society, each thinker’s ideas and conventions intersected religion, Social…show more content…
People wanted change. Yet, not all members wanted it. Christianity and its teachings did not always enlighten social rules and/or the Constitution (Teacher’s Curriculum Institute, 2004, p. 7,8). Still, young people and children in Birmingham, Alabama joined the nonviolent protests, marched and sang (p. 8). Although these efforts resulted in fire hoses being turned on them, police dogs set loose to attack them and even led to King being jailed in Birmingham, glimpses of these events, the harsh and inhumane treatment inflicted captured national attention. (Teacher’s Curriculum Institute, 2004) Responding to Birmingham’s local clergy who criticized king for seeking social justice, his letter from the Birmingham jail became famous (p. 7; King, 1992). More importantly, (Teacher’s Curriculum Institute, 2004) President Kennedy ordered military troops to Birmingham to restore social order and to enforce new desegregation laws (p. 7). Yet, desegregation in Birmingham was a small victory and only a fraction of King’s dream. Rather it began the march to freedom in Washington, D.C., where at the foot of the steps at Lincoln’s memorial in 1963, King delivered his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” Detailing a world in which all people could live in peace and a world in which social justice prevailed, King’s 1963 “I have a Dream” reinforced the growing Civil rights movement (King, 2003). Culminating…show more content…
Dennett, on the other hand, is a philosopher. He has questioned the prevailing Darwinism schools of thought, consciousness, free will and even the moral thought relative to religion within human life (Dennett, 1995, p. 38). Questioning the scientific traditions and reductionist thought that has extended from Aristotelian and the ways in which it has wrongly informed science and even delimited discoveries, Dennett (1995) addressed all of these shortcomings and their traditions through the scholarly traditions upon which they were founded. Lifting the veil of ignorance, Dennett acquainted his readers and colleagues with the historic environments and factors that coauthored the aforementioned traditions. Ultimately demonstrating the ways in which (Dennett, 1981) the Cartesian superficially created a false dichotomy and ultimately informed reductionist and essentialist traditions, Dennett (1995) articulated Darwin’s intentions and those of scientists and philosophers that followed (p
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