Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (680 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082032843X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Philip Cafaro is an assistant professor of philosophy at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Getting Inside Henry Thoreau's Head Philip Cafaro pulls together and organizes the best ideas from Thoreau's books, lectures, letters and journal. His book offers the most comprehensive and detailed summation and discussion of Thoreau's ideas I have read, revealing Thoreau as a philosopher of real stature, of great depth and of original thought. Thoreau's Living Ethics stands as a more complete expression of those ideas than any one of Thoreau's own efforts.This is the mo. A wonderful book H. F. Gibbard "Thoreau's Living Ethics" is one of the most engaging philosophy books I have read this year. It examines every facet of Thoreau's virtue ethics, holding Thoreau's ethic up to the light like a diamond and watching it glitter. Cafaro gently questions Thoreau's suppositions and probes the consequences of his beliefs, without ever losing his admiration for this deep thinker who escaped to the deep woods. This is a great book not only for f. Bradley P. Dean said Valuable contribution to Thoreau studies. Cafaro, a professional philosopher (and professor of Philosophy), has done an excellent job of emphasizing and explicating the central concern of Thoreau's career, which was how to live (that most ethical of issues). For this he deserves well. Get this book. Read it. You'll be glad you did. And then go back and begin re-reading Mr. Thoreau's writings with greater understanding and deeper insights. And, finally, express your gratitude to
Philip Cafaro shows Thoreau grappling with important ethical questions that agitated his own society and discusses his value for those seeking to understand contemporary ethical issues.Cafaro's particular interest is in Thoreau's treatment of virtue ethics: the branch of ethics centered on personal and social flourishing. Ranging across the central elements of Thoreau's philosophylife, virtue, economy, solitude and society, nature, and politicsCafaro shows Thoreau developing a comprehensive virtue ethics, less based in ancient philosophy than many recent efforts and more grounded in modern life and experience. The book shows Thoreau not only anticipating recent arguments for wild nature's intrinsic value, but also demonstrating how a personal connect
Thoreau is one of America's greatest writers, as everyone will admit, but scholars and critics have rarely given sufficient emphasis to Thoreau's ethics, which Cafaro rightly places center stage. Thoreau's Living Ethics constitutes an extremely valuable contribution to Thoreau studies. Dean editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin)Thoreau's Living Ethics is the first book-length study of Thoreau's ethics in the English-speaking world. (Rick Anthony Furtak Thoreau Society Bulletin)Thoreau's Living Ethics is full of subtleties and insights, and demands slow perusal and thoughtful reflection. (Holmes Rolston III author of Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World)Philip Cafaro understands very clearly and communicates very effectively the profoundly ethical b