An Interesting Debate: Civil Disobedience v . Common Sense

1. An Interesting Debate:Civil Disobedience v. Common Sense Similar Language…Dissimilar Perspectives

2. Pair #1: “…Government even it its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one” (Common Sense) “That government is best which governs least” (Civil Disobedience) Notes/Discussion:

3. Pair #2 “…establishing some form of government to supply the defect of moral virtue” (Common Sense) “Unjust laws exist” (Civil Disobedience) Notes/Discussion:

4. Pair #3: “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence” (Common Sense) “After the first blush if sin comes its indifference” (Civil Disobedience) Notes/Discussion

5. Pair #4 “Government…a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world…design and end of government, viz. freedom and security” (Common Sense) “a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army” (Civil Disobedience) Notes/Discussion:

6. Behind the Curtain • Logos: Rational Principals, Logic, Objective • Pathos: Invoking Pity, Sorrow, Emotions • Ethos: Fundamental Character, Morality, Social Norms