Category: Civil Disobedience

What are the conditions, if any, that would justify the use of violence to oppose an unjust legal system? Introduction Political resistance continues to manifest in different forms and to varying degrees throughout the modern age. Despite its critics, civil disobedience has generally come to be considered a permissible mode of resistance. The philosophical debate…

Civil Disobedience Rhetorical Analysis American transcendentalist and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, wrote the essay Civil Disobedience in response to slavery and Americans’ involvement in the Mexican-American War. Thoreau practiced what he preached, spending the night in jail for non-payment of taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War. Throughout his essay, he shares his idea, which…