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Thursday, December 6 th

Thursday, December 6 th. Get out your notes on Civil Disobedience Review each paragraph Your answers to B, C, D Walt Whitman—quick & dirty Your overall response to Transcendentalism? 24 Hour Transcendentalism Challenge!

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Thursday, December 6 th

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  1. Thursday, December 6th Get out your notes on Civil Disobedience Review each paragraph Your answers to B, C, D Walt Whitman—quick & dirty Your overall response to Transcendentalism? 24 Hour Transcendentalism Challenge! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE have a copy of Moby-Dick ready to go for Monday. Our copies are atrocious! It is National Handwriting Awareness Week!

  2. Civil Disobedience I & II: In class III Unjust laws exist in the world and unfortunately, men wait until the majority agree until they try to change them The punishment (remedy) they face will be worse than the injustice (evil) so they do nothing Citizens should be ready to point out the government’s flaws, and the government should be ready to hear them Sometimes the injustice is a necessary evil and will fix itself OTHERWISE, if a law causes you to be unjust to your fellow man, you MUST BREAK THE LAW [Sidebar: As MLK, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”]

  3. IV Thoreau writes about his run-in with the tax collector who is serving the state with his body (machine, no respect for him) It is important to meet the agent of injustice head on, i.e. why he did not pay his tax It only takes one person to start change: “what is once well done is done forever.” People only love to talk about reform and not act on it

  4. V Thoreau gives his reasons for civil disobedience Truth holds power; it is always stronger than the error He also writes that if a man experiences some injustice himself, he will be a more passionate, eloquent, and effective protestor A man’s conscience is where his true manhood and immortality reside

  5. VI Even though Thoreau was put in jail, he still felt free They had punished his body, not his mind The government never confronts a man’s intellectual ability or morality, only his body The state is armed with superior physical strength The acorn & the chestnut: one does not give way to the other, each grows according to its nature The same is with man—if he cannot live according to his nature, he dies

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