1. Justice and politics:an ongoing tension
The first important task, before continuing this essay, is to define justice. ... At the end of his essay, Thoreau describes a utopian State, in which people are able to live independently of the government. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... As one reads Thoreau's essay, one has a better understanding of how immutable the tension between politics and justice is. For example, Thoreau writes "Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice." ...
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