The Salt March of Mahatma Gandhi: A Critique of an Act of Civil Disobedience with respect to Plato's Crito and King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail .
This paper will use the "Salt March" of Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 as an example of civil disobedience to be analyzed with respect to the theoretical models outlined in Plato's Crito and King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail". It will be argued that, while there exist strong arguments against civil disobedience - most notably that it often leads to violence and civil unrest - often such acts are justified, as was Gandhi's, as a means of last resort. 9 pgs. 14 f/c. 5b.
