The fundamental question asked by virtually every freshman who takes HUM2305 at the University of Florida is the very title of the course: "What is the 'Good Life'?" So, what is it? At its very core, the notion of the "Good Life" is the idea of a world in balance, the idea of a world where unification and peace exist among its citizens. While many positive strides have been made by societies seeking to achieve the "Good Life," every action to this end has a consequence that manifests itself as a cost to the "Good Life" and its yearned-for attainment. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and Dr. Melissa Lane, in her common lecture on what she has dubbed "sustainable citizenship," present the refusal to fight for social justice and the common good as one such action that imposes a psychological cost to the "Good Life" by distorting its very essence as a communal ambition and making it an individual pursuit based on selfish ends rather than the desire for universal, harmonious citizenship.
The aforementioned perversion of the nature of the "Good Life" is the psychological consequence for societies who refuse to fight for the common good. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. carefully examines this consequence in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," throughout which he describes the fight for equality and unity as almost nonexistent for some groups of people. In his letter, King portrays himself as a soldier for social justice who fights for the common good through love and nonviolent direct action (King). Three forces oppose King and his cause: white moderates, complacent Negroes, and black nationalist groups (King). These three entities ignore the fight for the common good, and the consequence of their inaction is the perpetuation of segregation in society. The vehicle by which their ignorance of social justice perpetuates segregation is time, which King describes as a neutral force that can be used either constructively or destructively to propagate existing social conditions (King).
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Martin Luther King Jr., in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and Dr. Melissa Lane, in her common lecture on what she has dubbed "sustainable citizenship," present the refusal to fight for social justice and the common good as one such action that imposes a psychological cost to the "Good Life" by distorting its very essence as a communal ambition and making it an individual pursuit based on selfish ends rather than the desire for universal, harmonious citizenship. ... Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. ... Martin Luther King Jr., in his "Letter from a Birmingham ...
Albany, Georgia - Martin Luther King Jr. who began to emerge as a powerful leader. focused the movement on Albany and goes face to face with Laurie Pritchett , the Albany police chief,. ... - MLK viewed federal government as an ally. ... Mlk loses - Mlk experienced his greatest defeat. After nine months when MLK left Albany was as segregated as ever. Pritchett's strategy was successful in stopping MLK. ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. had many significant influences on his life that shaped his beliefs and convictions. ... I believe this sparked MLK's own deep commitment to end inequality. ... Martin Luther King Jr. started and became the Civil Rights Movement. ... I look at MLK and these traits to reveal the rationalization of his rise to multicultural leadership in our society. Through studying the life and example of Martin Luther King, Jr., we learn that his moral values of integrity, love, truth, fairness, caring, non-violence, achievement, and peace were what motivated him. ...
MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) makes a lot of good observations which he makes within each chapter. I think that each of the chapters had one specific point that MLK wanted to get by to the reader which summed up to his main topic. ... Another significant point that MLK pointed out was that "our God is able." ... One of the most important things that I got out of this book was the first point that MLK made. ... You can't tell by the way MLK writes because you never know how he really is inside. ...
Following suit some years later, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a compelling essay titled, " Letter From Birmingham Jail," covering his feelings towards unjust laws and what we should do concerning them. ... In Letter From Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Meanwhile, MLK was also alluding to the Bible, and to Socrates too. ... Martin Luther King Jr. once stated that Civil Disobedience was an inspiration for him. ... Plus, since it was written in a more forceful tone than Letter From Birmingham Jail, it influenced people the world over to take action more sufficiently than MLK's...
