Abstract
United States Politics and Social Justice are forms that a mythology assumes in a culture. The former has lost sight of its earlier sustaining mythos: an image of Paradise. It has also become unconscious of the earlier writings of Plato and Aristotle on the nature and structure of a virtuous society ruled by leaders of wisdom. By revisioning earlier epistemologies outlined by the ancient Greek philosophers, politics and social justice movements can reclaim their origins. The conclusion outlines a series of 13 differentiations between US. politics and the currents of social justice. For men are easily spoilt; not everyone can bear prosperity .... Especially should the laws provide against anyone having too much power derived from friends or from money; if he has, he and his followers should be sent out of the country (Aristotle, Politics, n.d Book V, chapter 8, p. 361).
Recommended Citation
Slattery, Dr. Dennis Patrick Ph.D.
(2007)
"Mythos, Logos and the Poltics of Justice,"
Verbum Incarnatum: An Academic Journal of Social Justice: Vol. 2, Article 10.
Available at:
https://athenaeum.uiw.edu/verbumincarnatum/vol2/iss1/10