The Platonic dialogues

Don't you think that the person who is most likely to achieve [knowledge] flawlessly is . . . with the unaided intellect

. . . by applying his pure and unadulterated thought to the pure and unadulterated object, cutting himself off as much as possible from . . . his body" (Phae. 127).

In Walden, Thoreau also is cutting himself off from the material things of the world, but chiefly as they relate to wealth and industry. He wants to use nature instrumentally as a mechanism of transcending material details and to a higher plane of consciousness. In his essay "Economy" in particular, Thoreau valorizes his personal experience at the pond, but his descriptions of building a home and furniture and raising and cooking his own food suggest that experience close to natural simplicity condemn the "coarse labors of life" (109) that are responsible for the fact that the "mass of men le

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