Philosophy & Ideas
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau argues that individuals may have obligations not to cooperate with unjust government, making it a compact text for studying conscience and resistance
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Books by Henry David Thoreau
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Philosophy & Ideas
Life Without Principle
Thoreau argues that a meaningful life should not be reduced to labor for its own sake and urges people to align work with conscience, thought, and genuine living
Philosophy & Ideas
Walden
Thoreau’s experiment in deliberately simplified living becomes a wide-ranging reflection on work, consumption, time, attention and society. It is less a handbook than a sustained challenge to assumptions about what a worthwhile life requires
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