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Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience . Rama dadam Y asmin. Transcendentalist Beliefs.

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Civil Disobedience

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  1. Civil Disobedience Rama dadam Yasmin

  2. Transcendentalist Beliefs Transcendentalism is a philosophy that we can transcend the limitations of our physical sphere in order to realize greater truth and individual freedom (or potential) in the process. Different writers approach the philosophy different way, but for Thoreau, as shown in Walden, it is very much about eschewing the strictures of our everyday lives. Civil Disobedience is an essay about how the limitations of civil government can sometimes inhibit our greater, moral freedom, and so we may consider ourselves to have the right to judge it by our own individual moral standards, in effect "transcending" its limitations.

  3. Thoreau’s beliefs -To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. -He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist. -All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked.

  4. Influence on Gandhi Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi (a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi) was impressed by Thoreau's arguments. In 1907, about one year into his first satyagraha campaign in South Africa, he wrote a translated synopsis of Thoreau's argument for Indian Opinion, credited Thoreau's essay with being "the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America", and wrote that "Both his example and writings are at present exactly applicable to the Indians in the Transvaal

  5. Influence on MLK • Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thinking was greatly influenced by that of Thoreau's. He was most probably influenced more by India's Mahatma Gandhi; however, Gandhi's principles were mainly based on those of Thoreau. Though Thoreau lived more than 100 years before the time of King, his thinking remained an influential legacy.

  6. Reflects on Thoreau's ideas • By the time the catalogue was in its proof stages, new problems had arisen. As one of the great Hebrew scholars of the day Bodley avidly collected Judaic a for his library but bemoaned his librarian's difficulty with the language: "You have almost failed in every one of your Hebrew books which were printed with Hebrew letters," he wrote to an overworked James (Aug 8 1604). Moreover he found fault with the catalogue's printer: "It doth somewhat move me, to see a work of this expectation, and charge unto me, to be so much disgraced through the Printer's carelessness considering what warning I gave him..." (Aug 24 1604).

  7. MLK Gandhi Henry David

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