In "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals of good conscience should actively face unreasonable government policies through nonviolent means, such as denying to pay taxes. ... Thoreau uses several different rhetorical techniques throughout his work in Civil Disobedience. ... A great example of Thoreau using pathos is when he is talking about why his cell mate was in jail. ... This correlates to Thoreau depicting the government as excessive and unfair. Thoreau's main thoughts in this part of Civil Disobedience are noticeably present in his writing through the use...

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Although many would point Henry David Thoreau as the father of civil disobedience, since he was the first person using the term when in 1848 he wrote "Resistance to Civil Government," there is existent records that show that civil disobedience has been around for a long time. ... Carried by the motto "that government is best which governs least,"[Thoreau] Henry David Thoreau, defines "Civil Disobedience" as "a pacific act of willful resistance, achieved by not obeying laws he considers to be unmoral and unjust [Thoreau].... What does Thoreau, and Goldman with their re...

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In his essay "Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau writes, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" (Thoreau). ... An act of civil disobedience must also be motivated by morality. ... In history, however, civil disobedience has played an enormous role in the evolution of society. ... Therefore it is imperative that we know the definition and purpose of civil disobedience, what constitutes civil disobedience, and the changes that it can bring about - and of course, ...

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Virtues on Self Government Born in Concord, Massachusetts, the popular Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived a very simple life which led him to his popular essay "On Civil Disobedience." Thoreau lived a very unique life and he based his writings on many of his fufullling principles. ... Thoreau's concept of "Government is best which governs the least"(CD 35). ... Those statements made by Thoreau in 1894 still holds true in 2003. ... Thoreau's "Declaration of the Independence for the Conscious," reflects his belief in using nonviolent but complete resistance to an unjust g...

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"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. ... Another condition for civil disobedience to be legitimized, according to Rawls, is that disobedience coordinate with different minorities. ... The damages typically related to civil disobedience are as per the following. First, civil disobedience can be a divisive power in the public eye. ... Numerous scholars view non-violence as important to the legitimately of civil disobedience. ...

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Thinkers Emerson and Thoreau were two critical thinkers who valued nature as a big part of their life. ... For this reason, Emerson and Thoreau argue that solitude and society are the most focused topic in their works because of Solitude's ability to give you more freedom instead of living under the rights of unjust laws and Society exploiting you to opportunities with education and grammar. Thoreau argues that living in solitude gives you more freedom instead of living under rights of unjust laws. ... Thoreau says, "Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we e...

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Henry David Thoreau helped to propel this movement, expressing his own deviance through writing. "Civil Disobedience" argues against the legitimacy of government and laws, and is Thoreau's most famous (and radical) essay. ... In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau lashes out against the existence of government. "That government is best which governs not at all," he says (Thoreau, qtd. in Parker and Krupat 1792). ... The 1800s, on the other hand, were inundated by an emerging consumerist society, which Thoreau adamantly rejected. ...

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This movement practiced the laws of civil disobedience which showed how people were willing to risk any form of danger and even go to jail to overcome this chaotic period of time. ... Civil rights movements' means of protestation were at the early stages influenced by 'civil disobedience', that is to say freedom rides and sit-in's in order to directly challenge the injustice of segregationist laws. ... Therefore, 'civil disobedience' means of protestation were replaced by more accurate and appropriate means of protestation, more suitable to the new cause and its...

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Similar to Emerson, Thoreau dislikes institutions and promotes non-conformity. ... Thoreau takes Emerson's "Self Reliance" philosophy further by becoming an activist while following his conscious or individual thoughts. An example is Thoreau protesting slavery using Civil Disobedience, "If one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this co partnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefore, it would be the abolition of slavery in America"(9). Thoreau encourages disobeying unjust laws in order to change them. ... Thore...

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Social movements are brought on by various forms of civil disobedience which Thoreau (cited in Goodman, 2002) describes as a "responsibility, not a right in the face of injustice". Thoreau, publisher of Civil Disobedience 1849, was one of the first advocates for civil disobedience, not just in writing but also through practice, by refusing to pay taxes "to a US government that supported slavery and war" for which he was imprisoned. ... Rawls saw those who participated in forms of civil disobedience as acting from moral principle and political conscience for the public good (Goodman, 2002...

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Henry David Thoreau, the intellectual heir to Emerson's transcendental throne, carries on in this vein in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an anti-slavery platform. ... The quaint, idealistic notions of Emerson and Thoreau were nothing more than quaint, idealistic notions. ... Thoreau borrows a line from Antigone that sums up his experience well, "It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey"(11). ... The arrogance of Self-Reliance and Civil-Disobedience establ...

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Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The best government is the one that governs little if at all" (Thoreau paragraph 1). For this Thoreau has been declared an anarchist by some, and even compared to Proudhon, yet Thoreau claimed he was staunchly opposed to anarchy. In Civil Disobedience he declares "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government", and distances himself from "no-government men (anarchist)" (Thoreau). ... Thoreau is considered to be an "individualist anarchist.... Gandhi was deeply impacted by Civil Disobedience, and echoed Thor...

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Thoreau's main purpose in writing Walden was to encourage people to simplify their lives and connect with nature. ... (Baym 1149) In Walden, Thoreau criticizes institutions for being distracting and complicated. ... In another document written by Thoreau and published first in 1849, "Resistance to Civil Government," he rejects institutions all together for their corrupting influence on man. This essay is commonly referred to as "Civil Disobedience" because of a reprint in 1866 (Baym 964). "Civil Disobedience" is a fitting title because Thoreau asserts that i...

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Apart from the founder of the club the most important representatives there were: Henry David Thoreau, Amos Branson Alcott, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Peabody. ... Another representative of Transcendentalism - Henry David Thoreau was under the influence of "Nature". ... Thoreau struggles to "live the visible through the invisible". ... Thoreau felt one must behave as morally toward nature as toward men, and considered the wasteful cutting of forests, for example, to be inhuman. ... Transcendentalists dealt with other crucial problems like social injustice (Thoreau's "Civil Disobedien...

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Every movement, civil or otherwise, needs a symbol. ... Brown's status as a martyr was further substantiated by the writings of Thoreau, Melville, and Douglass. ... Thoreau sought to change that image. ... In cooperation with Thoreau, Douglass also illustrates John Brown as a man of sincerity. ... He represents many of the ideas dictated by Thoreau in his essay on "Civil Disobedience," as he took any measures necessary to defy what he saw as an unjust law. ...

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Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marquis De Sade's Justine. ... Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau believed that the majority of societies were merely minions of a domineering governmental institution. ... Thoreau is harsh in his critique of soldiers and other individuals in the military. ... Thoreau identifies a fu...

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Abstract Rebellion as an act of disobedience and its evaluation are the focus of area in this research paper. The factors that lead to rebellion including discrimination, social class, ethics and free will are thoroughly worked upon to investigate whether rebellion is a justified act of subversive b...

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In this paper I am chiefly going to discuss and criticize the ideas of Emma Goldman , Daniel Burton, and Henry Thoreau about what anarchism is, why people in general, and these philosophers in particular criticize governments, and which are their solution for improving the situation, would anarchism really solve the problems or make the situation even more difficult, and what anarchists promoters fail to explain. ... On the other hand Burton favored civil disobedience, and according to him the best way is not to vote at all, and not to pay taxes. ... But, in my opinion, Henry Thoreau gives t...

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