Values Tutorial - Emerson and Thoreau

    1) Overview: We have been working through Transcendentalism and important topics that are helping us figure out what others value and what is important to us. This link should take you to the Values Tutorial so that you can complete the module. If the link does not work - please see alternate route description below. Values Tutorial (Links to an external site.) Go to English 1C Critical Thinking Stuff module. Go to Tutorials, Resources, Readings and open link. When you get to the Home page (Critical Thinking), go to the top Tutorials and click on down arrow. Click on Values and read/work through entire module U00 through U10. 2) Directions: After also reading Emerson and Thoreau - we are going to blend these - and analyze values. One point for each definition (found in Values section) and one point each for Emerson connection and one point for each Thoreau connection (found in readings, notes, and your analysis/evaluation). *This, as per usual, will help with essay preparation and laying the groundwork for our next units. Save your work and quotes and analysis. You can set it up like this example/sample (but your definitions will be from the Values section and not our Transcendental vocab - I am using alternate essays from the Dover/pdf collection so as to not take any of your ideas in the sample). *Quotes are not required but encouraged and helpful to essay and Socratic Seminar prep. You can paraphrase also but at least cite page number so you can access it later - the exact word or concept does not have to be in the quote - you would just use it to help prove your interpretation/analysis/evaluation of Emerson's and Thoreau's beliefs (from Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and "Experience" and Thoreau's "Slavery in Massachusetts" and "Civil Disobedience" aka "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"). #) Abolitionist- person who believes in doing away with a law, custom or institution completely Emerson in his essay "History" says, "...all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstance predominant, and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time," (1). His point is basically that man invented laws in their minds and we should keep what we continue to agree on and use those same minds to abolish laws that don't work or are unfair. Thoreau in his essay "Life without Principle" says, "Government and legislation! these I thought were respectable professions...but think of legislating to regulate the breeding of slaves, or the exportation of tobacco! What have divine legislators to do with the exportation or the importation of tobacco? what humane ones with the breeding of slaves?" (88). He argues that the idea of "regulating" and making laws and contracts on people (importing/exporting/birth/sale) like we do on tobacco is ridiculous and immoral. People (who claim they are principled) are trying to justify slavery because it makes money for states - Thoreau wants to abolish slavery and any other law, custom or institution that is not valuing all people as equals. Now you do the following terms in the same way as I did the sample above. 1) Personal value 2) Moral value 3) Political value 4) Aesthetic value 5) Instrumental value 6) Intrinsic value 7) Euthyphro problem - How did each feel about God and the meaning of life?  4/22/2021 Order 343080325 https://admin.writerbay.com/orders_available?subcom=detailed&id=343080325 3/4 8) Analogical arguments Remember evidence consists of real events, invented instances (hypotheticals), and analogies - so find an analogy each uses to make a point in an essay and explain it 9) utility/rights/virtues How did they feel about these? Why? 10) Utilitarianism (define yourself here from previous readings and notes - then we will enlarge later) (In U10 - S4 Further Reading -click link in Values Tutorial "A Philosophical article on Rights" and scroll down inside The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to Mill in section 2.2 The Function of Rights: The Will Theory and the Interest Theory "Consider, for example, Mill's famous assertion in Utilitarianism: When we call anything a person's right, we mean that he has a valid claim on society to protect him in the possession of it, either by the force of law, or by that of education and opinion...To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something which society ought to defend me in the possession of (Mill 1861, 54)." Using John Stuart Mill's assertion from his book - write a couple of sentences each for Emerson and Thoreau - that would explain the things that they would think we should "have a right to."