Philosophy / Unit 8 Philosophy 0345 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Civil Disobedience
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The idea
Civil disobedience: public, nonviolent, conscientious lawbreaking aimed at changing law or policy—typically accepting the penalty to address the community's sense of justice.
In practice
Thoreau's night in jail, Gandhi's salt march, the Birmingham campaigns: lawbreaking performed in daylight, as argument.
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