Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marquis De Sade's Justine. ... In Plato's "Euthyphro" (translated by F.J. Church), Socrates manages to completely stupefy Euthyphro, an expert on religious ideology, using his own logic, "Either our former conclusion was wrong or, if it was right, we are wrong now" (Plato, 20). Furthermore, just as Euthyphro leaves the conversation unchanged without giving a sound argument, the people in general ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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