1) I believe that Aristotle would have been satisfied by the painting of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. It shows how a group of people can come together with organized thought and really look at the government they have been dealing with and try to form a better one by looking at a bigger picture “for the people”

   2) One element in the painting relating to the representing society, would be the simple feature of the many people in this one room brainstorming to come up with a more correct form of government. Not just having a signal person come up with laws and adjusting them to fit his or her means. 

   3) Aristotle would have assumed that based off the painting the government being formed would be a Democracy. Based on the painting you can see that they’re almost taking a vote in the room which you could relate to Democracy because it’s over “Majority Rule”.

   4) For the time period they represent it well. It was really up to everyone else to follow it or not. kkkk

        

             

       

     

      

Jake Wrye

Ron Hopper

Eng 105-17

September 17, 2017

 Blog 2

King and Cicero 

Does a just individual need to adhere to the laws? Perhaps they should just observe the laws and abide by the ones they see fit. Technically speaking, anyone and everyone has the freedom and ability to do whatever they desire. Certain actions however can obviously have a consequence that will follow.  A great example of this would be actions that Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) took to abolish segregation in the United States. One of the many actions that MLK did was that of peaceful protesting, and in the spring of 1963 MLK and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, went out to peacefully protest about ending segregation. Instead of getting a positive response from the community, they were attacked and many were thrown in jail including MLK.

MLK saw that segregation was bad, and it was. He also saw that police were very heavily abusing their power to control certain situations. It’s with this that he took action and chooses to fight back with the government.  How is this though? We’re lead to believe that the laws are definite and supposed to be followed without any question. In Cicero Reading, Philus goes about saying   “But which laws is he to obey? All the different laws that exist? There are difficulties here. Inconsistency, between laws, ought to be impermissible, since it is contrary to what nature demands. But the point is that laws are not imposed on us by nature—or by our innate sense of justice. They are imposed by the fear of being penalized. In other words, human beings are not just, by nature, at all.”  

I believe that what Cicero is saying is that laws are put into place to keep control of people and keep the sanity with everyone. Back then it was keep the whites over here and the blacks over there. In fact it should have been keep the morally good over here and the criminals over there.  People are not simply just or unjust; it’s too broad of a category to label someone in. Instead people just follow what others have put in place to suit their needs in the past. It’s up to the newer generation to adjust any faulty laws in order to keep the “sanity” with everyone.