MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENCE

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Nonviolence; Martin Luther King; Social Action.

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Daniel da Rosa Eslabão
Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1866-2606

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This article aims to analyze a less highlighted aspect of Martin Luther King's life and work: his philosophical instruction and intellectual journey, seeking to understand the principles he established as techniques for social action aimed at transforming society. Through the study of one of his most important texts, in which he describes his intellectual formation leading to the formulation of the Six Principles of Nonviolence—a set of effective ethical precepts for resolving conflicts through peaceful resistance, aiming at building a just and peaceful society—this study will focus on the text *My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence* (KING, 1958). We observe that the author followed a formative path with solid philosophical foundations, although his greatest influences were closer to the thought of Mahatma Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau.

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Daniel da Rosa Eslabão, Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel

Doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade do Porto (FLUP, UP,) Portugal (2017). Doutrorando em Filosofia na Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), ingresso em 2020. Mestre em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, UFSM (1998). Bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas, UFPel (1996). Licenciado em Filosofia pelo Instituto Claretiano (2012). Licenciado em Sociologia pela Univeridade do Norte do Paraná (UNOPAR), 2019. Possui como áreas de Interesse: (1) história do pensamento e das teorias sociológicas, (2) Sociologia ambiental, (3) Filosofia Social, (4) Teorias Sociológicas contemporâneas, (5) História da Filosofia e (6) Filosofia prática (Social, Política e Ética), (7) Relações teórica entre Sociologia e Filosofia, (8) filosofia Moral, (9) Psicologia e Psicanálise.

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ESLABÃO, Daniel da Rosa. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENCE. Brazilian Journal of Research in Applied Social Sciences, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 151–167, 2023. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unipampa.edu.br/index.php/BJRASS/article/view/115936. Acesso em: 12 apr. 2026.

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