... Plato's Crito and MLK Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," this question is addressed. There are similarities and differences in the way Socrates and MLK Jr. deal with this issue. Both Socrates and MLK Jr. use a nonviolent method of disobedience. Neither man used violence in his means of showing his dislike for certain ... unjust laws and yet both were punished for their actions and beliefs. Socrates and MLK Jr. believe that the majority does not matter. If people are not satisfied with the terms of the law, it is not just and ... they both have faith that some greater force is guiding t...

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... outlooks on the authorities, and the laws in which they must abide by. Both stories are taken from an earlier date in which Socrates and Dr. King were placed in prison after breaking the law. I think that Dr. King and Socrates have completely different outlooks on weather it's right to intentionally break the law. I think that the argument between Dr. King and ... Socrates is very apparent that they disagree on weather a person should intentionally break the law. Socrates being a firm believer in what is just and unjust supports his position that escaping from prison and fleeing in exil...

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... he would have stayed in Athens to be executed. Actually, I think he would have left Athens when he was a young man. There were other alternatives for Socrates, but they all betrayed his personal beliefs. He could have been exiled, but he loved Athens and refused to leave his homeland. He could have vowed to stop ... teaching(sharing) his supposed impious views. Socrates could not stop sharing his knowledge with others, because he was told to do so by a God and that was more important to him than living. ... to make this nation pay attention to justice. Neither of these men believed in ...

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... the issue of tension in society (679). He explains that he opposes violent tension but sees constructive, nonviolent tension as necessary for growth (679). He goes on to say that "Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered rb bealm of ... them he sees only nonviolent tension as constructive and good (679). By saying this, he shows that he will not agree or tolerate violence in any way. By adding what Socrates says, he backs up the idea that without te! nsion no one will te...

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... funding the concentration camps and eventually their own death (Bower 276). Even in cases were survivors did have the policies in writing to receive the money they were still denied. Socrates Folkas tried to cash in on a $4,000 life insurance policy to Victoria zu Berlin; he was told the policy did not exist even though the policy was in his hand ... ...

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... who question, the critics, are one step up. They question the fundamentals. They ask why we're here, what we're doing, where we're going. They question everything. And Socrates is their patron saint. We see a lot of this from the anti-war crowd, and much of it is useful. Critical examination is vital, the tearing down of established orthodoxy ... ...

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... shadow his viewpoint with world-renown knowledge. Contradictions, paradoxes, and analogies also add points to his score for logical appeals. Meanwhile, MLK was also alluding to the Bible, and to Socrates too. His voice isn't as forceful as Thoreau's, which is probably why Civil Disobedience had a more long termstaying power than Letter From Birmingham Jail, eventually inspiring the very letter. King ... ...

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... the rule of "an eye for an eye." Similarly, the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks all executed citizens for a variety of crimes. The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies. Although the death penalty was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved ... ...

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... from many religious traditions of the Jews, both in the religious way as well as in a Christian way. Another tradition was resultant from education in ancient Greece. This is where Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, were the influential thinkers on education. The Religious influence was a very inopportune incidence for the West, leading to a great period of institutionalized ignorance known as the Middle ... ...

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... or herself, but to the state. He also did not accept Plato's theories. Aristotle wrote his works on ethics, logic, politics, poetry, astronomy, geology, biology, and physics. Plato a student of Socrates is considered one of the many greatest philosophers of Western civilization. He wrote down everything. Plato wrote about many things. One of his well-known writings is The Republic, based ... ...

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