The Moral Individualism of Henry David Thoreau

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 19:239-253 (1985)
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Henry Thoreau boasted that he was widely travelled in Concord, Massachusetts. He was born there on 12 July 1817, and he died there on 6 May 1862, of tuberculosis, at the age of forty-four years. In 1837 he graduated from Harvard College, and in 1838 he joined Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others in the informal group that became known as the New England Transcendentalists. The author of four books, many essays and poems, and a voluminous journal, he is best known for the book Walden and the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’, and for the circumstances attending these two milestones in American thought and literature.

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reprint Norton, David L. (1985) "The Moral Individualism of Henry David Thoreau". Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 19():239-253

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