解读《论公民的不服从》中梭罗的政治思想

On Thoreau's Political Thoughts in Civil Disobedience

在亨利.大卫.梭罗的政治思想体系中,个人良心被视为比法律更高的一种道德原则。他主张个人利益高于机构组织利益。任何机构化了的组织都不能将自己的意志强加于人,而应当尊重每一个人的权利。当政府机构运作出现偏差和失误时,公民有权拒绝与政府结盟,有权反抗政府。发表于1849年的《论公民的不服从》,集中地表达了梭罗的这些政治观点,并对世界产生了深远影响。

Henry David Thoreau was a very renowned American writer and philosopher in 19th century. He believed the supremacy of individual conscience over statutory law and social conformity, which have no fight to force people to obey the wrongdoing; otherwise people could refuse to cooperate with it. The article will analyze such political ideas from the essay Civil Disobedience, published in 1849 by Henry David Thoreau.