Seven half-hour radio talks first broadcast during January and February of 1966 in Ideas, a program series arranged for the CBC Department of Public Affairs.
Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law
This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?
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But is there a place for civil disobedience in democratic societies? When is civil disobedience justifiable? Is violence ever called for? Furthermore, how effective is civil disobedience?
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 ...
Arguing for a less restrictive theory of civil disobedience, the book will be a valuable resource for anyone studying social movements and issues of political philosophy, social justice, and global ethics.
What role might civil disobedience play in the politics of representative democracies as power 'leaks' from the nation state?
Indeed, originally so unpopular with readers that Thoreau was forced to buy back over half of the books from his publisher, this work has gone on to inspire the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This ebook has been ...
Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau - In Civil Disobedience 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 ...
What is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even today it remains unclear how we should best understand civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience or direct action is examined for its political, social and moral foundations as well as its practical application. "This handbook is a resource for everyone who is not...
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is his most powerful and influential political essay, first published in 1849, which exalts the law of conscience over civil law.
This book shows how the notion of civil disobedience has evolved.
Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice
"Resistance to Civil Government" ("Civil Disobedience") is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
Civil Disobedience
"Sharon Walsh and Evelyn Asch use the concept of civil disobedience to bring fundamentals of sound argumentation to life. The authors instill a strong understanding of how arguments function (or...
This is the tradition of non-violence, one of the offshoots of which is the civil disobedience expounded and analyzed in this book.