If your class
has also read Socrates, you might consider these famous words of Thoreau in the context of the
ancient philosopher. Socrates advised that "the unexamined life is not worth
living." Living "deliberately" necessitates some examination, if for nothing
else to eliminate some of the surface on which we glide throughout our day.
"Deliberately" involves making choices as to what we want to do and what we don't and
then acting accordingly. It involves an active engagement with even the most mundane of tasks,
and this in turn involves a sense of time as lingering. Modernism is all about speed, but in
living deliberately one would refuse to rush. It involves "to be," preferring the
process of life rather than the final product (what we produceby) of it.
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
"""I went to the woods/Because I wanted to live life deliberately." How does this message relate to Walden?""
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