Martin Luther King And Immanuel Kant Vs Unjust Analysis

When any decision is made the most important factor determining its conclusion is its justice. This justice is what is of question when concluding its accuracy, whether it is moral or just another human-made law. There are many writers thought history and from those Sophocles, Martin Luther King and Immanuel Kant will be discussed upon. These writers offered various conclusions upon what is the just and the unjust. In Kant’s works he basically emphasized that the consequences of a specific nation does not define a person’s personality as good or bad rather the motivation or the reasons behind the act define a person’s nature or personality. The emotions or desires behind doing something does not give a person there moral worth. Kant also …show more content…
It was law of Thebes that traitors are to never be buried and as Kind of Thebes, Creon could not exempt Polynices burial just for Antigone since she was his son Haemon, future wife. So this quote which Creon is saying means that yet Antigone, you knew that burring traitors is against the law of the land, you still choose to do it . And Antigone replies that this human-made law by the people of Thebes could not stop her from burring her brother because it was the law of the gods that everyone disserves a burial and it is up to the gods to judge those that die. She said as being the sister of Polynices it was her duty and it was the moral justice that he gods set fro everyone including her brother Polynices, to receive a …show more content…
I never heard it was Zeus / Who made the announcement. / And it wasn’t justice, either. The gods below / Didn’t lay down this law for human use. / And I never thought your announcements / Could give you –a mere human being— / Power to trample the gods’ unfailing, / Unwritten laws” (p.19). By this quote Antigone states that justices is something that cannot be made by human beings even if they were to sit down a make a judgment together on an issue and say that this is there justice, like in the sense of the people in the city of Thebes who all sat down and agreed that burial of traitors is unlawful. Antigone infers that even if a group of people (people of Thebes) sat down an agreed on what is the justice they still would not be able to able to reach true moral justice because it is something they are not capable of doing. She says that the language and law of the people making the decision upon what is justice are manipulated by their language and social ethics and thus they end up making the just, unjust and the unjust the just. She says the reason behind people not making a moral judgment is due to the confusion people have between what is the absolute and what is there relative