Toulmin Argument Analysis: The Case For Reparation
The case for reparation
Introduction
Stephen Toulmin was a British philosopher who had devoted himself in the work of moral reasoning. Throughout his writing, he had sought to develop practical arguments that can be used in evaluating the ethics behind the moral issues. Toulmin model of argumentation has a diagram that contains six interrelated components that are considered when analyzing arguments. On the other hand, The Case for Reparation that has two hundred and fifty years of slavery, Jim Crow of 90 years and the 35 years of racist housing policy. The editorial argues that it is until the people of the United States reckon the compounding moral debts that America can never be whole.This essay argues for the logical consistency in the …show more content…
To start with, the bible quotation in the editorial serves as one of the facts concerning the argument. The quote claims that every crime that is set in violating the law whereby man becomes degenerate and claims himself to resign the principles of nature, these men will receive damages due to their transgression. In addition, the man who hath the damage has the rights to punishments that are common to him under a particular right to seek reparations. The reparations will always arise amongst citizens due to moral debts in their relationship.The second treatise of the editorial supposes that people earned their rights to the soil due to the unpaid labor and sufferings and they have become determined to it. Therefore, if it was not for the people’s moral debts in obedience, the reparation of labor and sufferings could have not evolved amongst people. Following the story of Clyde Ross concerning the black Mississippi farmers, it is clear that the people’s moral debt in adhering to the law caused them great punishments. For instance, the women who protested the arrangement of farming in Mississippi did so at their own risk of grave injury or death. In addition, it was clear that every person who refused to work would be arrested under the vagrancy
Introduction
Stephen Toulmin was a British philosopher who had devoted himself in the work of moral reasoning. Throughout his writing, he had sought to develop practical arguments that can be used in evaluating the ethics behind the moral issues. Toulmin model of argumentation has a diagram that contains six interrelated components that are considered when analyzing arguments. On the other hand, The Case for Reparation that has two hundred and fifty years of slavery, Jim Crow of 90 years and the 35 years of racist housing policy. The editorial argues that it is until the people of the United States reckon the compounding moral debts that America can never be whole.This essay argues for the logical consistency in the …show more content…
To start with, the bible quotation in the editorial serves as one of the facts concerning the argument. The quote claims that every crime that is set in violating the law whereby man becomes degenerate and claims himself to resign the principles of nature, these men will receive damages due to their transgression. In addition, the man who hath the damage has the rights to punishments that are common to him under a particular right to seek reparations. The reparations will always arise amongst citizens due to moral debts in their relationship.The second treatise of the editorial supposes that people earned their rights to the soil due to the unpaid labor and sufferings and they have become determined to it. Therefore, if it was not for the people’s moral debts in obedience, the reparation of labor and sufferings could have not evolved amongst people. Following the story of Clyde Ross concerning the black Mississippi farmers, it is clear that the people’s moral debt in adhering to the law caused them great punishments. For instance, the women who protested the arrangement of farming in Mississippi did so at their own risk of grave injury or death. In addition, it was clear that every person who refused to work would be arrested under the vagrancy