Thoreau's Living Ethics : Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Challenge -- First Responses -- Life -- Awakening -- Self-Culture -- Our Chief End -- The Good Life -- Higher Goals -- Pleasure and Intellect -- Virtue -- Recovering the Ancient Concept of Virtue -- Recovering the Pursuit of Virtue -- Recovering Full Human Virtue -- Romantic Virtue -- Virtue and Duty -- Resolution -- Economy -- First Things First -- Economy as Method and Metaphor -- The Train to Fitchburg -- The Bean Field -- Solitude and Society -- The Virtues of Solitude -- Neighbors -- Friendship -- Emerson and Thoreau -- Nature -- Fishy Virtue -- Higher Laws -- The Bean Field -- The Ponds -- Challenges -- Conservation -- Politics -- Anti-slavery -- Citizenship -- Heroism -- Anti-mammonism -- Patriotism -- Foundations -- Thoreau's Naturalism -- Thoreau's Idealism -- Thoreau's Experimentalism -- Philosophical Foundations -- Death -- A Note to the Reader -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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