Analysis Of Thoreau's Self-Transcendentalist Government

He claimed that folks should not authorize governments to override or impact their awareness, and that man has a responsibility to evade and delay the efforts of governments to interfere in his thoughts and actions, which are open and destined only by nature. This privilege is obviously connected to the transcendentalist view of the self-reliant individual and is best summarized by Thomas Paine’s well-known statement, “That government is best which governs least”. Thoreau also claims that governments are somewhat damaging than supportive, thus their rightfulness is hardly defensible. The government was mainly a mediator of dishonesty and unfairness. Henry Thoreau was neither a supporter of democracy, as he appealed that majorities merely by