Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is ... consciences, and that they have a duty to (1854 original; edición 2020)
One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalismâ?¦ "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden stresses the significance of self-reliance, solitude, meditation, and nature in rising above the the life of quiet desperation lived by most people. that, he argues, is the lot of most people. Part autobiography, part manifesto Walden is a moving treatise on the importance distancing oneself from the consumerism of modern Western society and embracing nature in its place.… (más)
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is ... consciences, and that they have a duty to
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalismâ?¦ "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden stresses the significance of self-reliance, solitude, meditation, and nature in rising above the the life of quiet desperation lived by most people. that, he argues, is the lot of most people. Part autobiography, part manifesto Walden is a moving treatise on the importance distancing oneself from the consumerism of modern Western society and embracing nature in its place.
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"Acepto de todo corazón la máxima: "un gobierno es mejor cuanto menos gobierna", y me gustarÃa ver ponerla en práctica con mayor rapidez y eficiencia. Llevado al extremo, finalmente lleva a esto, que asimismo creo: "el mejor de los gobiernos es aquél que no gobierna en absoluto"."
Asà comienza el breve ensayo sobre la desobediencia civil, que se halla en la base de la constitución con que las instituciones de los actuales Estados Unidos se han edificado. Y esto es precisamente lo que, quienes llegan a los gobiernos ávidos de poder, menos están dispuestos a dejar que pase. Vivimos en tiempos en que el tutelado del ciudadano se impone... "por su bien". Algunos hasta quieren imponer desde el poder qué es bulo y qué no lo es. (