LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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He was a writer against the government
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He led the transcendentalist movement
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He stressed the importance of community
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He encouraged unquestioning obedience to the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, and environmental scientist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these identities in meditating on the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau’s importance as a philosophical writer was little appreciated during his lifetime, but his two most noted works, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) and “Civil Disobedience” (1849), gradually developed a following, and by the latter half of the 20th century, had become classic texts in American thought.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau argued that the government must end its unjust actions to earn the right to collect taxes from its citizens. As long as the government commits unjust actions, he continued, conscientious individuals must choose whether to pay their taxes or to refuse to pay them and defy the government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau’s opinion concerning government was “that government governs best which governs least.” He believed that the individual should think for himself and follow his own conscience.