... life. Emerson furthers this notion by advocating the shrugging off of the bounds of conformity and adopting a lifestyle dictated not by society but by one's own inherent sense of morality. 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 ... severe personal, societal, and humanitarian consequences that occur when their philosophy is applied to the lower and middle class majority demonstrate this deficiency. The middle and low...

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