Assigned for today: response to the Battle lecture (end of syllabus; web document)

Assignment for Thursday, Jan. 22:

Read/re-read the remainder of Boss, Ch. 1.
For pre-write: respond to questions 1, 2, and 8 in the Exercises, pp. 34-35.

I. Claims, positions in Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Class "nominations":

distinction between just and unjust laws (2)

the breakdown of the church under the pressure of the status quo and conformity

the current treatment of Blacks through segregation is wrong

all segregation statutes are unjust

arguments

philosophical assumptions

what is real?

God is real

human nature = free

rights

Divine law based on Christianity (and Judaism)

injustice

how do we know?

senses -

education - Scriptures, Western moral tradition

experience of injustice/justice - history

arguments

philosophical assumptions

what is real?

how do we know?

arguments

philosophical assumptions

what is real?

how do we know?