In this term’s lecture I learned new way of thinking from three people, they are Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson was a philosopher, Thoreau a writer and Whitman a poet. I think they have same kind of idea but their way of expressing it was different. Th...
We often use a word “culture”, but what is culture? It doesn’t have its shape, but a notion. So we have different image of culture. Let us begin with review of the lecture. First, culture classified into three stages. The first one is stereotype, the seco...
I think Thoreau is a man in action and of liberty. Most of people at that time regard him as an eccentric man, especially when they heard he was living in forest alone. It is beyond their comprehension. Though, from the point of Thoreau’s view that common sen...