PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
16 Oct 2018
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Wollstonecraft said something similar, first duty is to your autonomy and freedom. Anarchist is more of a mindset -- a way of trying to live your life freely. Tacit consent: allowed to leave; quit your enjoyments at any time. Explicit: life long, there"s no going back. To disobey implies that you are a state under yourself, once the laws don"t apply to you, you break them. Thus, you were never really part of the contract you were just a state under yourself. Page 82 first paragraph, if one were to tell me . When the friction comes to have its machines, now its not the machine with friction, but this is a machine that purposely makes friction. Government is actively making problems, this is the point where conscience should tell us to disobey the laws. It"s an unjust law is a human law not following natural. Any law that uplifts human personality is a just law.
