Martin Luther King s Letter From A Birmingham Jail And...

Martin Luther King in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail and Richard Rodriguez in Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans expressed contrasting insights concerning certain aspects of the notions of diversity and differences, as well multiplicity and otherness as characteristic to the American society. However, they both proved to be strong proponents of assimilation model. The paper will analyze King’s and Rodriguez’s perspectives of political action, race, social division, and religion. It will argue that the authors shared the deep Enlightenment based ideas, as well as advocated the concept of the melting pot Americanization, while emphasizing the creative role of minority. Trying to completely rethink the old historical experience and comprehend a model of a new society, both authors habitually derived their insights from the sacred approaches of Enlightenment era. They perceived the latter as a single point of reference that was significant on a national scale. King’s letter most notably expressed this by its paradoxical negating-continuity fervor. Rodriguez, in turn, can be said to have largely revised King’s ideas in connection with his own attempts to rethink the importance of major national statutes and the previously unquestioned ideas. In this regard, King urged for a non-violent action as a best hope to achieve human progress, while recognizing social stagnation as the only plausible outcome of the effortless faith in the capacity of time to serve as aShow MoreRelatedPHL 612: Philosophy of Law5882 Words   |  24 PagesRYERSON UNIVERSITY Department of Philosophy Course No. PHL 612: Philosophy of Law Winter 2014 SECTION ONE (011) Instructor(s): Alex Wellington Office: Room 428, Jorgenson Hall* Phone: 979-5000 ext. 4057 (E-mail address)**: awelling@ryerson.ca OR alex.wellington@sympatico.ca Office Hours Posted: Wednesdays at 2:10 pm, By Appointment Wednesdays at 3:10 pm and at 4:10 pm, Drop In Time Thursdays at 3:10 pm, By Appointment *Other times may be available by appointment Website:Read MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 PagesFraser University v Acknowledgments For the 1993 edition: The following friends and colleagues deserve thanks for their help and encouragement with this project: Clifford Anderson, Hellan Roth Dowden, Louise Dowden, Robert Foreman, Richard Gould, Kenneth King, Marjorie Lee, Elizabeth Perry, Heidi Wackerli, Perry Weddle, Tiffany Whetstone, and the following reviewers: David Adams, California State Polytechnic University; Stanley Baronett, Jr., University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Shirley J. Bell