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This 3 page paper uses Thoreau's comments in Chapter 6 of "Walden" to discuss the war in Iraq. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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transcendentalists, his diary of the time he spent on Walden Pond is a classic of American literature. This paper examines one chapter from the book Walden, which may be one
of the greatest expressions of the possible relationship between man and nature, and examines it in relation to a modern problem, specifically the war in Iraq. Discussion Thoreau was a
Transcendentalist, so well look briefly at what this means. Transcendentalism as a philosophy suggests that "intuition and the individual conscience transcend experience and thus are better guides to truth than
are the senses and logical reason" (Transcendentalism). This philosophy is heavily influenced by Romanticism, and its adherents were strong supporters of the "natural world, believing that divinity was present everywhere,
in nature and in each person" (Transcendentalism). This philosophy is clearly illustrated in Walden. In his chapter on visitors, Thoreau says that when people came to chat, he observed that
they enjoyed physical proximity, but that being too close stifled the exchange of serious ideas: "... I sometimes experienced the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest
when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words" (Thoreau, 1960, p. 98). Big ideas and the thoughts needed to express them have to have time and room
to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable
neutral ground, between them" (Thoreau, 1960, p. 98). Its Thoreaus opinion that if people are merely "loquacious and loud" then they can afford to be close together, but if they
want a serious and meaningful exchange of ideas, they have to remain relatively far apart, so that they can discuss things without becoming over-excited by the proximity of others (Thoreau,
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