PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
29 Nov 2016
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Sometimes our moral conscience pulls us in ways. If you stick around in that society you give it passive consent. We should always obey the law because: we have a relationship of obligation toward the state, we entered an implied contract by not leaving the state, we had the opportunity to change the law from within. 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 . Refused to pay taxes because he didn"t agree with them. 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.
