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Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Paperback)
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Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Paperback)
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In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why
Thoreau still seems so relevant today - more relevant in many
respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has
been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist,
mystic, historian, social thinker, Transcendentalist, and lifelong
student, we may find in Tauber's portrait of Thoreau the moralist a
characterization that binds all these aspects of his career
together. Thoreau was caught at a critical turn in the history of
science, between the ebb of Romanticism and the rising tide of
positivism. He responded to the challenges posed by the new ideal
of objectivity not by rejecting the scientific world view, but by
humanizing it for himself. Tauber portrays Thoreau as a man whose
moral vision guided his life's work. Each of Thoreau's projects
reflected a self-proclaimed 'metaphysical ethics', an articulated
program of self-discovery and self-knowing. By writing, by
combining precision with poetry in his naturalist pursuits and
simplicity with mystical fervor in his daily activity, Thoreau
sought to live a life of virtue - one he would characterize as
marked by deliberate choice. This unique vision of human agency and
responsibility will still seem fresh and contemporary to readers at
the start of the twenty-first century.
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