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"Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream" So cried the prophet Amos, echoed thousands of years later when Martin Luther King insisted that "Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice!" This course will explore the changing and always contested meaning of justice in its many forms in Western history. Is justice little more than the ancient Greek claim that one should "do good to one's friends, and harm to one's enemies"? Or is there a universal form of justice that recognized civil rights and social justice for the poor, women, racial and ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians and other marignalized peoples?