Martin Luther King, Jr. was a visiting professor at Morehouse College within the early 1960’s.* Whereas there, he taught a senior seminar in social and political philosophy. What was on the syllabus?
Right here’s his define for the primary semester of the course, from the King Center:
He consists of materials from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Bentham, and Mill.
Right here is an examination given within the course:
An examination from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s social philosophy seminar at Morehouse School
Thanks to numerous readers and tweeters for bringing this to my consideration.
Readers could also be within the forthcoming assortment, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry (Harvard). Shelby and Terry discussed the book and King’s political philosophy on WBUR’s “Radio Boston” yesterday.
(*Morehouse says the course happened in 1960; the King Middle says 1961-62. The examination’s date of January 25, 1962, suggests the course started in Fall 1961.)
[This post was originally published in 2018.]
