Thoreau Thought Web 3/29/00


                ?          
                |          Sophists         
                |            |    
        (Hindu)---(Phaedrus)----(Plato &)             * Civil Disobediance
          (Text)  ( "wolf" )   (Socrates)
            |   \     |       /     | 
            |    \    |?    C/ivil  |  
            |     \   |     /dis*   |  
            |      (THOREAU)        |--Social Contract 
            |     /   |     \       |  
            |    /    |      \      |   
           non  /     |    Sel\f    |    
      violence /      |  Relian\ce  |     
            | /    pacifism     \   | 
          (Swiss)     |          (Lock &)
        (Bretheren)   |          (Hobbes)
                      |
  (Hitler)---------(Ghandi)      
     \        |       |
      \       |       |
       \    Violence  |-----Racism/Caste System/
        \ vs. Passive |     Segregation/Colonial Rule 
         \  /         |
          \/          |
           \          |
            \         |
             \        |
              \       | 
               \      | 
                (MLK, Jr.)


    Other conflicts of                  Items NOT in parenthasis are relationships
     Man vs Nature?                     Items in (parenthasis) are ideas
    The Old Man & The Sea
     vs. Walden ?
   (W. Whittman & Emmerson ?)

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