Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
	Thoreau in 1856
Born	12 Julie 1817; Concord, Massachusetts, Unitit States
Dee'd	6 Mey 1862 (aged 44); Concord, Massachusetts, Unitit States
Alma mater	Harvard College
Era	19th century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Schuil	Transcendentalism
Main interests	Ethics, Poetry, Releegion, Politics, Biology, Filosofie, History
Notable ideas	Aboleetionism, tax resistance, development creeticism, ceevil disobedience, conscientious objection, direct action, environmentalism, anarchism, simple livin
	Influences Indie filosofie, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin;
	Influenced Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Walt Whitman, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, John Cage, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Emma Goldman, E. B. White, E. O. Wilson, B. F. Skinner, Stanley Cavell, George Bernard Shaw, John Zerzan;
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Henry David Thoreau (Julie 12, 1817 – Mey 6, 1862) wis an American essayist, poet, philosopher, aboleetionist, naituralist, tax reseester, development creetic, surveyor, an historian. A leadin transcendentalist,^[2] Thoreau is best kent for his beuk Walden, a reflection upon simple livin in naitural surroondins, an his essay "Civil Disobedience" (oreeginally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience tae an unjust state.

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↑ Furtak, Rick. "Henry David Thoreau". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 27 Julie 2013.
↑ Howe, Daniel Walker, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. ISBN 978-0-19-507894-7, p. 623.