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Slavery in Massachussets. E-book. Formato EPUB Henry David Thoreau - Edizioni Aurora Boreale, 2023 -
Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. One of the great protagonists of the “American Renaissance”, is considered one of the greatest American philosophers of all time. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience (originally published as Resistance to Civil Government), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.The short essay Slavery in Massachussets, that today we re-propose for the attention of modern readers, was written by Thoreau as an address delivered at the Anti-Slavery Celebration at Framingham, on July 4, 1854, after the conviction in Boston of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
Una Vida sin Principios. E-book. Formato EPUB Henry David Thoreau - Edizioni Aurora Boreale, 2023 -
El ensayo del filósofo, escritor y poeta estadounidense Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Una Vida sin Principios (Life Without Principle), que originalmente se llamó What Shall it Profit, fue una conferencia dictada por Thoreau el 6 de Diciembre de 1854 en el Hall del Ferrocarril de Rhode Island. Posteriormente, dictó la conferencia cuatro veces más en Massachusetts durante 1855, y una vez más en Nueva Jersey al año siguiente.En su ensayo, publicado póstumamente en 1863, Thoreau cuestiona si el trabajo es la parte más importante de la vida, argumentando que el trabajo a menudo está reñido con la poesía y la vida. Señala que, cuando vio a su vecino temprano en la mañana conduciendo una yunta de bueyes, al principio se sintió culpable porque estaba mirando desde la comodidad de su hogar. Sin embargo, más tarde vio el resultado del trabajo del trabajador: un poco de arte de jardín inútil, y su opinión cambió. Argumenta que el trabajo debería valer la pena e insiste en que no tiene necesidad de que la “policía del trabajo sin sentido” le diga cómo gastar su tiempo.
Civil disobedience. E-book. Formato EPUB Henry David Thoreau - Edizioni Aurora Boreale, 2022 -
Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. One of the great protagonists of the “American Renaissance”, is considered one of the greatest American philosophers of all time. His essay Resistance to Civil Government, also known as Civil Disobedience, first published in 1849, was destined to become one of the most important manifestos against injustice and in favor of humanity’s freedom of thought and action. An essay today more than ever decidedly relevant, in an era in which the most fundamental freedoms and the rights of humanity have been questioned and limited by those power elites who hide behind governments and pursue the plans of a New World Order founded on slavery, control and submission. For Thoreau, conscience comes above law: we should be men first, and subjects afterward: «The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right».