5522瓦尔登湖的生活哲学Life Philosophy from the Walden (英文版)

2021年1月20日发(作者：邮寄英文)


Life Philosophy from the
Walden






In
the
nineteenth
century,with
the
rapid
development
of
modern
social
productive
forces
of
capitalism,people
began
to
feel
the
advanced
technology
the
material
civilization
brought
ile
the
pursuit
of
material
became
commercialization of age was inclined to satisfy with people
’
s increasing
material requirement to a maximum extent while any spiritual belief in the tide of the
strong development of capitalism appear feeble and so the face of such
phenomenon,many scholars, thinkers and other people with lofty ideas generated the
unprecedented doubts:Is the
commercial society of capitalism our ideal
society?Are
the money and the power our human permanent pursuit?With this kind of doubts, in
the summer of 1845 ,

Thoreau built log cabin beside Walden Pond,living in the woods
along for two
years and two lived modestly,Self-sufficiency
and planted
sprouts, gathering the spare time,he often went swimming and went for
a walk ,or chatted with some friends living at the nearby town. Meanwhile, he wrote
down the
Wal
den ,the representative works of author
’
s moving to the
cabin was weird action,especially in the age when most people choose to struggle to
succeed
in
society
requiring
more
money
and

Walden

is
the
sincere
description
of
the
nature
,the
authoritative
guide
of
simple
life
and
the
heartless
charges to the gold coin society.
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”
Innumerable little streams overlap and interlace one with another,exhibition a
sort of hybrid product,which obeys half way the law of currents,and half way that of

it
flows
it
takes
the
forms
of
sappy
leaves
or
vines,making
heaps
of
pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth,and resembling,as you look down on them ,the
laciniated,lobed,
and
imbricated
thalluses
of
some
lichens;or
you
are
reminded
of
coral,of leopard
’
s paws or birds
’
feet,of brains or lungs or bowels,and excrements of
all kinds.
”
(chapter 17) The above example is from the description of the Walden Pond
by the author when a lively and fresh picture unfold before our description
of
the
beautiful
scenery
of
Walden
Pond,in
Concord,Massachusetts
contrasts
deliberately
to
the
destruction
to
nature
by
human
beings,revealing
the
ecological
crisis and their social roots,publicizing the awareness of unexpected development. As
we know,in the 19th century,with the rapid development of modern social productive
forces
of
capitalism,under
the
tide
of
commercialization,the
material
civilization
developed
with
high
speed
in
the
American
society
which
satisfied
people
material
requirement
in
a
way
but
tempting
them
to
put
forward
further
demands
which
transform
into
the
the
driving
force
of
the
technical
progress
and
commercial

the
cycle,people
had
become
a
mechanical

spiritual
civilization, as a kind of conditioned power was gradually the second
half
of
the
18
th

century,at
first
in
the
England,then
in
the
rest
of
countries
in
Europe,America and Japan the industrial revolution came true,eventually establishing

the
system
of
industrial
production
on
the
basis
of
the
coal,metallurgy,chemical
industry
and
so

was
a
revolution
of
technology
and
economy
with
the
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improvement of the basic the steam engine was applied to use coal as fuel
As
result
showed,in
these
countries,along
with
the
establishment
of
the
coal,metallurgical,chemical
and
other
heavy
industry,the
turbid
town
and
smoke
poisoning event happened while the river had hurt r, Thoreau is the
pioneer of ecological literature,the description of nature through his life is saturated
with the thought of ecological told his readers only when human get along
with
the
nature
harmoniously
can
people
have
access
to
receive
a
complete
life
connotation,that is to say,the relationship between human and nature should be gentle
very much.
Thoreau
also
criticized
the
tired
people
for
material
desire:
”
Most
of
the
luxuries,and many of the so-called comforts of life,are not only not indispensable,but
positive
hindrances
to
the
elevation
of

respect
to
luxuries
and
comforts,the
wisest
have
ever
lived
a
more
simple
and
meagre
life
than
the
poor.
”
(chapter 1)
Simple life itself is not target,and Thoreau was not intended to call
people to
live the
wilds for long time,the most primitive extreme try
check
and the promotion of the simple life is to call for human simplified material life as
much
as
possible
so
that
decreasing
the
damage
to
the
ile,we
should
spend
the
time
saved
by
simplifying
the
material
life
in
obtaining
the
maximum rich spiritual Thoreau
’
s opinion,the progress of mankind is not the
occupation of physical assets more and more but the spiritual life of abundance and
the ascension of the ise,even though human possess all the world
and receive the maximum wealth in material,human lose their own soul,for what is a
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