Martin Luther King was a very charismatic person who lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and civil rights movement. He fought against racial inequality, injustice with Negros, and the “white power” structures built in the 1920s. In Birmingham where he was put in a jail cell, Martin Luther king decided to write a letter describing the concerns and issues of the involved in his movement, against the state and government. These values and concerns fall in the same line with Mill and Descartes when it came to the demands of a society that is unjust, but it’s the opposite for Rousseau. Descartes raised suspicion and doubt in the westernized philosophy world during his time. He believed that you are in charge of your own though and you transform it into ingenious of us. Martin knew and learned that even though he was born in a world he did not create, and just so happens the world he was born in, the colored people or his kind were treated as unequal. However from the ideas of Descartes, Martin became a leader of his kind, and through the notion of taking charge in thought through bringing into what can be real. False …show more content…
The harm principle is a theory that suggests “the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilization, against his will is to prevent harm to others.” Martin Luther King knew that his people were being segregated and treated poorly by other upper class men and non-black folks. He knew his followers were only fighting for their own freedom, not causing any harm to anyone. At the same time, the government kept on imposing rules reinforcing segregation - separate bathrooms is a clear example -, it just goes to show that this leads into the “tyranny of the majority” that Mill spoke of. The tyranny majority is when the majority in the society puts their own needs and values at the expense and detriment of those in the