On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Couverture souple

Thoreau, Henry David; Henry David Thoreau

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1594625263 ISBN 13 : 9781594625268

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2007

Synopsis

Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning. He did more than write-he declined to pay his taxes, and was hauled off to gaol in consequence. Who can say how much this refusal of his hastened the end of the war and of slavery ? At the present day, intellectual detachment from the State, and individual defiance of its behests when these are opposed to conscience, are more difficult, and apparently more futile, than in Thoreau's time. The unit seems of less im-portance in the mass. It is all the more impera-tive, therefore, that the facts that the mass is composed of units and the conscience of the mass is the aggregate conscience of the units, and that the individual is still the sole responsible guardian of his own conscience and the co-guardian of the public conscience, should be fully recognized.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (Resistance to Civil Government) by Henry David Thoreau was first published in 1849 but has never lost its lasting relevance and its ideas are more vitally important than ever before in today's world. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or numb their conscience, and that people have a duty not to allow the government to be agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War, but his book has become a significant inspiration for all movements against evil and corruption ever since.

Présentation de l'éditeur

'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1594625263
• ISBN 13: 9781594625268
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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