Western Philosophy19th century philosophy
Name
Henry David Thoreau
Birth
12 July 1817Concord, Massachusetts
Death
6 May 1862 (aged 44)Concord, Massachusetts
School/tradition
Transcendentalism
Main interests
Natural history
Notable ideas
Abolitionism, tax resistance, development criticism, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, direct action, environmentalism, nonviolent resistance, simple living
Influenced by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Influenced
Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, William O. Douglas, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy
