LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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The individual can judge the government’s actions.
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Nature can help us govern harmoniously.
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Democratic governments know better than the individual.
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War is sometimes the only answer.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Civil Disobedience” reflects two central ideas of Transcendentalism: the importance of the individual and the crucial nature of a person’s ideals. Thoreau’s entire argument hinges on the important role an individual plays in speaking out against injustices by a government.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau says “that government is best which governs not at all”(565) when he says this he is stating that the when government is not involved that things are better. That is an example of transcendentalism also because they are wanting individualism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalists valued individualism and self-reliance The Transcendentalists believed there is a divine spirit in nature and in every living soul. Through individualism and self-reliance human beings could reunite with God.