{"title":"Thoreau's \"Life without Principle\" and the Art of Living and Getting a Living","authors":"David B. Raymond","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0020","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Often seen as an anti-work crank, Henry David Thoreau was, in reality, an astute philosopher of work who devised a philosophy that envisioned the beneficial role work plays in the well-lived life. His essay \"Life without Principle\" is a jeremiad that laments the ways that materialism corrupts work, and calls upon his readers to repent and turn to a life of self-culture guided by moral and spiritual values. Salvation of work comes from a life lived with principle that makes work pleasurable for the worker, moral in its execution, and beneficial to the common good.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0020","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Often seen as an anti-work crank, Henry David Thoreau was, in reality, an astute philosopher of work who devised a philosophy that envisioned the beneficial role work plays in the well-lived life. His essay "Life without Principle" is a jeremiad that laments the ways that materialism corrupts work, and calls upon his readers to repent and turn to a life of self-culture guided by moral and spiritual values. Salvation of work comes from a life lived with principle that makes work pleasurable for the worker, moral in its execution, and beneficial to the common good.
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For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.
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