Thalia C. Sanders WHAT MAKES A SOCIETY JUST?

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In todays rapid society, what makes it just I say would be justice for all? If everyone in the world were treated equally then, this world would be a just society. Since, the beginning of recorded time on the planet earth, there has probably been no way to possibly that anyone can stop injustice from occurring. , I would analyze how oppression invokes feelings of resentment and alienation. Oppression is defined as unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power; something that oppresses especially in being an unjust or excessive exercise of power; and a sense of being weighed down in body or mind, as in DEPRESSION. Moreover, Kessler (2007) states that oppression can take many forms: economic, racial, sexual (p. 179).1 Historical perspective on acts of oppression: In AD 36, Jesus Christ had a trial which resulted in the ordered execution by way of crucifixion, under the rule of Pontus Pilate. During the Roman prefect of Judaea in the year of 26-36 AD, Pontus Pilate was probably ordered back to Rome to stand trial for charges of cruelty and oppression towards Jews. On the other hand, an ancestor of Jesus, Saul (Shaul) l. He was the first King of Israel during circa 1021-1000 BC. The prophet Samuel anointed Saul as King over Israel after he delivered the town of Jabesh-Gilead from Ammonite oppression. Saul also battled against the Philistines at Mount Gilboa and succumbed to his wounds. David battled also in the battle against the Philistines at Mount Gilboa and delivered the Israelites out of the hands of the Philistines, and he also paid tribute to their slain King. Throughout history people have loved and needed a leader, they were always looking for someone to make them feel special. Many would love to fall under the subjection of someone who wills truth of the people. The hope is in a forthright leader. However, even the book of Revelations says that many will be lead astray by this false hope and array of light which make everyones life on this earth a living hell. The leader of the New World Order is purported to bring forth a leader from a European nation, an old world leader, perhaps even the New Rome. In ancient Panormus, which is known as Palermo, a city that is located on the Bay of Palermo was founded by the Phoenician traders in 8 century BC. Furthermore, the city was turned into a Carthaginian settlement and later taken by the Roman in 254 BC. Of course, it was conquered by the Arab troops of the Aghlabid dynasty in 831, but later fell to the Norman adventurers, probably another crusader Roger 1 and Robert Guiscard in 1972. In 1266, Palermo was conquered by the French ruler Charles of Anjou. However, a popular uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers ended the French rule of Angevin

Gary E. Kessler, Voices of Wisdom: a multicultural philosophy reader, 6 th edition. Thomson & Wadsworth Publishing Co. California. 2007. Page 179.

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oppression in 1282. The city was taken by an Italian patriot Giuseppe de Baribaldi in 1860 and made part of the Italian kingdom. Theories of oppression: Karl Marx, (1818-1883) was born May 5, 1818 in Germany and died March 14, 1883 in London, England. He was a revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist. He published (with Friedrich Engels) Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei in 1848, which was commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. He also was the author of the movement's most important book, Das Kapital. He created, through his writings The Marxist view, which holds that there is this inevitable struggle between social classes, especially when the workers under capitalism are exploited. In addition, Karl Marx wrote other material along with Friedrich Engels that has formed the basis of the body of thought and belief known as Marxism. Moreover, Kessler states that in early history there are complicated arrangements of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome, we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the middle ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices, and serfs (p. 141).2 Moreover, each of these classes has subordinate gradations. He further goes on to state that society as a whole has split up into two great hostile camps, which are the two great classes of bourgeoisie and proletariat. However, Kessler states that Marx asserts that the modern bourgeois society came from the ruins of a feudalistic society, full of class antagonism that did not establish new classes, or new conditions of oppression or new forms of struggle. All of the bourgeois societys classes, conditions of oppression or forms of struggle are old and predate back to the feudal society, as well as the law that America uses such as common (case) law. Critical theory: The critical theory was inspired by the Marxist movement for social and political philosophy that was used in the Frankfurt school. According to the thought of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, the critical theorist maintained that a primary goal of philosophy was to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed. They caution that science as well as other forms of knowledge should not be used as blind faith in scientific progress, has been used as an instrument of oppression.

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