The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
How My Mind has Changed in the Last DecadeDr. King writes notes on how his mind has changed in recent years. King states that while his main focus was on theology and philosophy, he also focused on social ethics. According to Dr. King, segregation is a tool that exploits the Negro and poor whites. He saw similarities with the liberation of India's people from Britain and asserts that his trip to India cultivated his ideologies on nonviolence. |
KierkegaardDr. King notes that Kierkegaard reversed the Hegelian dialectic. |
KierkegaardDr. King cites a page in "The Personalist" on the existentialism in Kierkegaard's philosophy. |
KierkegaardDr. King records Soren Kierkegaard’s definition of the existential moment. |
KierkegaardDr. King writes notes regarding Danish philosopher and theologian Doren Kierkegaard's views on ethics and religion. |
KierkegaardDr. King outlines the two assumptions that one must have while studying the work of Kierkegaard. |
KierkegaardDr. King sketches notes on "the most original thinker in Danish history." |
Kierkegaard (Paradox)Dr. King quotes Kierkegaard and comments on his view of paradox. |
Pilgrimage to NonviolenceDr. King's essay "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" provides a replete account of the thinkers, ideas and sentiments responsible for his pledge to nonviolence. |
Soren KierkegaardDr. King writes about Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's first stage at which men live, aesthetics. |
Third Level (Cont.)Dr. King quotes Paul Tillich’s “Systematic Theology.” He used this quote in his doctoral dissertation, “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.” |