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Originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War... Read Full Overview

An essay. Originally entitled Resistance to Civil Government.

In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)... Read Full Overview

Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have... Read Full Overview

Even a cursory reading of Henry David Thoreau's immortal essay about civil disobedience reveals echoes in contemporary discussions of individual rights and the limits of government in a free society. Its themes resonate into the 21st century. Faced with a federal government that... Read Full Overview

Civil Disobedience argues that citizens should not permit their governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust... Read Full Overview

Po te, essayiste, m morialiste, Thoreau est l'auteur de l'inoubliable Walden ou la Vie dans les bois. Pr s de cent cinquante ans apr s sa parution, La D sob issance civile, qui s'ouvre sur cette pens e toujours actuelle: Le meilleur gouvernement est celui qui gouverne le moins,... Read Full Overview

Civil Disobedience argues that citizens should not permit their governments to overrule their consciences and that they have a duty to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

Thoreau... Read Full Overview

Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have... Read Full Overview

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Los ensayos cl sicos de Thoreau sobre las virtudes de la autosuficiencia y la libertad individual han tenido relevancia para todas las generaciones durante m s de un siglo.

Acepto de todo coraz n el lema: "El mejor gobierno es el que menos gobierna". y me... Read Full Overview

In 1848, Henry David Thoreau twice delivered lectures in Concord, Massachusetts, on "the relationship of the individual to the state." The essay now known as Civil Disobedience is a significant and widely admired contribution to abolitionist literature, as well as an anti-war... Read Full Overview