PHI 214 - Topics: Foundations of Social Justice (1)

While imprisoned for breaking laws in a nonviolent protest against segregation, Martin Luther King Jr. justified his actions by echoing St. Augustine: “An unjust law is no law at all.” Most would agree with this statement, but many would disagree on which laws it would actually have us reject. So, what are these principles of justice to which our laws must conform? In this course we will survey some scholars’ arguments against what they believe are unjust laws, practices, and policies. We will then critically examine attempts to generalize these objections into theories of morality and justice.
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