Henry David Thoreau · Philosophy
Thoreau’s two years at Walden Pond were an experiment in living on purpose - stripping life down to its essentials to find out what it has to teach, and refusing to reach the end and discover he had never really lived.
You learned that Thoreau went to Walden to ‘live deliberately,’ to ‘front only the essential facts of life,’ and to ‘simplify’ - an experiment in conscious living rather than drifting through a life set by habit and convention. Explain in your own words what deliberate living means…
Leads to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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