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The Influence Of Process Philosophy On The Civil Rights Movement

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Process philosophy is a set of ideas that endeavor to bring together various perceptions of religion, politics, and science into a unified reality that brings about both change and development in a dynamic world (Ferdon, 2014). The changing nature of American politics means that the process philosophy can act as a basis for civil rights movements to arouse change over time. Although the society cannot be perfect, identifying a metaphysical understanding of the impact of change can stir development. Such developments are only realistic through a holistic mode of thinking. This paper seeks to explore how the process philosophy has influenced civil rights in the modern America society. Arguably, the need to implement civil rights in full has …show more content…

Martin Luther King applied the concept of objectivism to emphasize the need for change in a static American society (Jackson, 2013). At the time, the United States society was largely a racial one in which Asians and Africans were regarded as inferior human beings. King was able to apply the concepts of process philosophy to argue that both science and religion showed no basis for the notion that some races were intellectually, psychologically and physically superior to others. As time went by, Americans started accepting Martin Luther King's transformational thinking. The result was the formation of a civil rights movement that campaigned massively against all forms of racial prejudice (Jackson, 2013). Consequently, over 40 years later, King’s application of process philosophy bore the ultimate fruit when the first African-American won the White House. Moreover, today, there are several interracial marriages. This shows that the process philosophy has impacted both the American government and society in a positive

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