The Letter from Birmingham Jail discusses issues of segregation between blacks and whites during Martin Luther King Jr. reign as civil rights leader in the United States. Through out King's letter to the clergymen he discusses segregation but also speaks on other events that were taking place during that time. King talks about the oppressed blacks and how the Ku Klux Klanner were mistreating blacks. King said how the leadership that was going to be elected, all had the same intention of keeping segregation among blacks. King also spoke on the differences between just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. What is right and what is wrong. The policy of the philosophy class of 2101 follows with the same problem of what is right morally, and what is wrong.
In Kings statement about just and unjust , he states "A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law of the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority ."(200). After reading the following paragrph of what is just and un just, how can a grading policy compare? Just laws, stated earlier, are laws that uplift the human personality. There are many things in the grading policy that I believe is fair. For instance, having the class to pick from two out of the three topics of that week to write, and then discuss in class. This causes the student to become more open minded, strengthen beliefs, and help the student become a better person when understanding something they wouldn't poccibly be able to if they didn't take the class.
