T.David Marshall: Letter from Birmingham

Friday, October 17, 2008

Letter from Birmingham

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

I have provided a link to Stanford University's website, which hosts the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr.'s posting of the "Letter". Please click on the link to read the PDF version of this work. I hope you find it as insightful and thought-provoking as I do. Please feel free to leave a comment on this work here. I would love to hear your thoughts.

To do Good, to Right Wrong, to Serve Man

If those who owed nothing gave nothing, how poor the world would be.

My core interests, and the vast majority of my writing and reading, revolve around the study of ethics, political philosophy and law.

ABOUT ME:

I have lived in Cayuga Ontario, Toronto, Ottawa, Yellowknife NWT, Boston (US), Shanghai (PRC), Sheffield (UK)

I received a BA in Political Science from the University of Waterloo; BA in Law from Carleton University, Certificate in Intermediate Chinese (Mandarin) from Hua Dong Shifen University, Credit in Political Science from Harvard University, LLB from Sheffield Hallam University, and LLM from the University of Ottawa.

I am a member of the Ontario Bar, Brant Law Association, Hamilton Law Association, and Canadian Bar Association

I lecture on Ethics and the importance of "Active Citizenship"

Board Member of Haldimand Community Living, the Heritage Haldimand Committee

Vice-Chair of Heritage Haldimand Committee

My core interests are Political Philosophy, Law, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Education. My specific areas of interest are legal and political obligation, legal duty, moral and ethical duty and responsibility, and social and political structuralism

My favourite writers are John Stuart Mill, Henry David Thoreau, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Rawls, Isaiah Berlin, Hanna Pitkin, Ghandi, Jean Jacques Rousseau, David Hume and Michael Sandel.

My favourite quote: "Kindness above all" - T. David Marshall (Sr.)., my father, mentor, guide, counsel, and friend.

The vast majority of writings here would not have been possible without his considered guidance, direction, and (before his passing) editing. Thanks to mom and dad.

And last (but not least): Pilot; Occasional Writer; Avid Canoeist and Camper; Photographer; Traveller, brother, son, father, husband and friend.

Recent Books

What Money Can't Buy, the Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael Sandel
Jean J. Rousseau's "Emile"
Judicial Conduct and Accountability, T. David Marshall (Sr.)
The Story of Philosophy, by Wil Durant
Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man"
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and the Rights of Man
Readings in Social and Political Thought
The Federalist Papers
John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism"
Criminal Law in 1962
Origins of inequality, by Jean J. Rousseau
Justice as Fairness, by John Rawls