PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Henry David Thoreau
23 Nov 2016
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Civil disobedience: breaking law as a political statement, refusing to accept laws that you think is immoral. Wrote about these issues in the crito . Socrates sentenced to death by the athenians. Plato has socrates say that we should not break the law, because we have a set of obligations. I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which i have a right to assume is to do at any time what i think right. Takes the opposite pole on civil disobedience from plato and socrates. Grew out on romanticism: individualism, solitude, forging your own path. The trouble with eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.
