Philosophy
1817 to 1862, Concord, USA
Deliberate living, the true cost of things, and civil disobedience - a philosophy of waking up and living free.
Start learning Henry →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 l…
Thoreau’s radical economics: the real price of anything is the amount of life you must trade for it. Measured that way, most luxuries are bad bargains, and most people spend their one existence buying comforts tha…
Thoreau’s argument that a person’s first allegiance is to conscience, not to the law - that when the state commands injustice, the just individual must refuse, even at the cost of prison. Born from his own n…
Thoreau’s conviction that nature is not scenery but a source of moral and spiritual life, that solitude is nourishing rather than lonely, and that the wild - in the world and in ourselves - is what keeps life and…
Thoreau’s final teaching: that the real frontier is inward, that reform must begin with the self before the world, and that most people go through life asleep. ‘Only that day dawns to which we are awake&rsqu…
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