Reinhold Niebuhr

Students were often at the front line of the protests as they were the most radical. They organized ‘teach-ins’ and occupied their universities in protest of the war. The students would stage acts of civil disobedience, and publicly burned draft cards and other items promoting the war. ‘Stop the draft week’ rallied 30,000 people to go on a march to the pentagon,[35] resulting, like the majority of protests, in riots against the police force. The movement was an effective way of preventing…

Throughout the reading from week three “Religion and Science in the 1920s Collected Commentary” four primary viewpoints are defended. These are: There is no conflict between religion and modern science, there is no way to reconcile religion and modern science, science and religion can coexist in the same belief system, and science and religion support and complement each other. Each of these viewpoints was defended thoroughly by highly regarded intellectuals of their time period. The idea…

King was good at writing and presenting speeches, he wanted to follow a different path in his life. Dr. King skipped multiple grades in school and went to a good college because he excelled above other students. He had many role models including Reinhold Niebuhr and Mahatma Gandhi because they did amazing things with their lives. Like many other leaders he had a dream to pursue his career in philosophy. Martin Luther King Jr. lived his early years in the south. He went to the north…

Was the New Deal of the nineteen thirties a failure or a success? The question is difficult to answer without the knowledge of life without the New Deal. It also depends on what your definition of success is. People form their opinions from the sources they get such as media, book, and newspapers. The Great Depression occurred on October 29, 1929, a day known as “Black Tuesday” when the stock market crashed. During this time the banks failed, the nation’s money supply diminished, and companies…

thinking that every man will first consider what is best for themselves before considering the needs of others. In Mortal Man and Immoral Society, written by Reinhold Niebuhr, Niebuhr states that there are "definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves" (Niebuhr 3). This ethical thinking does support the idea that CEOs may keep money for themselves and their peers or that people may use this argument as an…

The book, The Limits of Power by Andrew Bacevich, is organized into an introduction, three chapters, and a conclusion. The three chapters are titled The Crisis of Profligacy, The Political Crisis, and The Military Crisis, respectfully. These chapters are also broken up into subsections. Following these parts are the afterword, notes, acknowledgments, and index. The notes include the resources which cite books, news articles, journals, and general quotes from political scientists/theorists. It…

The collective super-ego clashes with man’s internal super-ego because each individual has different standards of right and wrong. Reinhold Niebuhr speaks of the flaws in society’s super-ego in his book Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics when he writes, “The inferiority of the morality of groups to that of individuals is due in part to the difficulty of establishing…

Maria Bonilla Philosophy 10200 Professor Weissman 5/19/2016 Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail 1. King said individual civil rights are rights that every individual has no matter their race, color, religion, or gender. These rights are just and allow for the equal treatment of everyone in the society. King believed the government in Birmingham was hypocritical because it chose certain laws to obey and other laws to disobey such as "the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 which…

“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends” (ThinkExist.com). Through the ups and downs in life, the twists and turns certain things will remain steady. Friends may not always be around, family may not always be around, but…

Feminism is a large movement today in America. Activists for the movement work in many different ways, just like the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a powerful letter during his time in Birmingham Jail, and feminists can learn a lot from what he had to say. The most important thing Martin Luther King, Jr. would tell feminists is to not fear being called extreme, so long as they are positive and loving in their endeavors. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King,…