First Task: The Exercise for Your Imagination Imagine you are a society of persons: You are a mother and a father, you are children and their relatives, you are a police officer and social worker,...

First Task:
The Exercise for Your Imagination

Imagine you are a society of persons: You are a mother and a father, you are children and their relatives, you are a police officer and social worker, psychologist and family doctor, teacher and neighbor and co-worker…all of the people related, from those by blood to those only by citizenship, to the life of a woman who is systematically abused by a violent spouse and who insists upon staying in what she calls her home.

Second Task:
The Writing Assignment

Reading Exercise 8 asked you to imagine the non-violent social program of Martin Luther King Jr. being used to address violence in a home. A program intended to confront injustice on the large scale was drawn into the smaller and more personal region of the family dwelling. Marilyn Friedman is concerned with the lives of victims of abuse, particularly women, in the household setting. It could be said, then, that she is making an effort to confront injustice as well.

Numbering your responses, tell us
from the perspective of the society of persons

1. What “justice” means.

1. Without looking it up, write
   your
   definition.


2. Now look it up online in the
   Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
   linked to
   Brightspace.
   Quote
   the main elements of
   their
   definition.)

2. What idea
   other
   than justice (or autonomy) do you think could be used as the foundation for resolving the problem of domestic violence against women?
   Quote
   one of the ethical theorists we have read or the source of your idea.

3. What does Marilyn Friedman conclude at the close of her article? What is your opinion of her form of resolution?
   Quote her work.