Thoreau Bicentennial: Celebrating Henry David’s 200th Birthday at HDS 

With the outbreak of Covid-19, Thoreau's philosophy, as laid down in the Walden Pond, How I Lived, is to me a solace and gift from heaven! Thank you for posting this video!!!

Walden is by far the best philosophical, spiritual and practical book that I ever read. To me Walden is no less than bible to me.

Thank you for posting this discussion. Pleased that over the years Harvard has opened more doors to gain knowledge whom do not have a lot of finances. Merci.

As a youngster attempting Thoreau, I soon learned that I would have to read the Greeks to appreciate his references. And what a wonderful voyage it has been. Soon I will complete another cycle and read him again with older and newer eyes.

Thank you for sharing this event.

The conference is a very humanizing experience

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The answer to the first question is that Thoreau had ethos, pathos, & logos of Christian spiritually and there is plenty of research and evidence to support that in his works, especially Walden.

Thoreau had an entire chapter devoted to higher “logos,” it’s called “Higher Laws.” You guys also forgot to mention all three of Thoreau’s pathos, logos, and ethos as well, which are found in Walden and Civil Disobedience. There’s plenty of evidence to support this, the research is easy to do.

Read our essay on this topic😂

It’s perfectly acceptable to acknowledge academically that Thoreau‘s writings are spiritual not Christian secular dogma. Read our essay on this topic😂

Junto con condenar la esclavitud de los seres humanos traídos en tal condición desde Africa, Thoreau también lo hizo con la invasión de los militares estadounidenses y el posterior despojo del inmenso territorio que sustrajeron a la República de México.

We are in a climate change time😂 Wonder what Thoreau would think about the climate change crisis and the politics of greed occurring today?

Tao that can be spoken of is not the Constant Tao’ The name that can be named is not a Constant Name. Nameless, is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The named is the Mother of all things. Thus, the constant void enables one to observe the true essence. The constant being enables one to see the outward manifestations. These two come paired from the same origin. But when the essence is manifested, It has a different name. This same origin is called “The Profound Mystery.” As profound the mystery as It can be, It is the Gate to the essence of all life. Ecology? I like to imagine that Henry danced his days and nights with the Tao at Walden Pond, and currently his feet are planted where before his feet could not tread. Rooted and reaching for the heavens, holding ‘nemawashi’ among the trees of Sleepy Hollow.. For does the butterfly morn the transformation of the caterpillar?🌲☯️🌲

Thoreau was very Spiritual, but he disdained the idea of a Personal God, or of Organized Religion; Thoreau might have tolerated a Deist View. In today's religious climate, Thoreau would build his house a lot farther out in the wood. It is sad to hear any modern religious beliefs being attributed to a man who clearly opposed any such concept or idea of a Personal God. - j q t -

The Boston Globe’s critic of Thoreau is a great example of lazy, elitist, intellectual columnist’s who did not bother to study Thoreau‘s work and that’s why they got it wrong. They do not know what the hell they are talking😂 of course he’s not a misanthropist🙄Boston Globe😂 but it’s nice to have money.