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Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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PhilosophyFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1533147132
ISBN13: 9781533147134
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 8 2016
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. Thoreau also used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 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 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

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