Disobedience, a fundamental aspect of human behavior, has been viewed through various lenses across cultures and eras. It encompasses a range of actions that defy authority, rules, or norms. As Oskar Wilde said, "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's...
Despite the two and a half-century difference between Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr., both have shaped modern societies and carved out a path for contemporary thought, philosophically and socially, influencing human actions and politics in the world today. At first glance, the two thinkers...
In this paper I will argue that Martin Luther King Jr’s (MLK) views about disobeying the law in the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are more credible than Socrates’s views about disobeying the law in “the Crito,” by Plato. MLK believes that civil disobedience is...
Abmist the years late 1820 Transcendentalism began to spring up and spread like a raging wildfire, sweeping up the world during a time of a heavy emphasis on intellectualism and spirituality; as people were often too comfortable and debatably complacent as innovations and commodities became...
Jackson & O Doherty (2012) state ‘community development is the process in which people join together to improve conditions and create change at the community level.’ Traditionally, Ireland has a long history of community development, beginning with the co-operative movement over a century ago. The...
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Transcendentalism was a literary, social, and philosophical movement that flourished during the middle 19th century which prioritized individuals over society as man’s greatness is found in the individual, not in the group. Transcendentalists were progressive individuals who went against traditionally held beliefs and thus were...
When one thinks of disobedience, the mindset goes to a child misbehaving when in fact, defiance is a natural human reaction to oppression. Arguing, fighting and disobeying is a natural sort of rebellion against anyone who disagrees with the way things are. Whether it is...