5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Lithuanian scholar of ancient philosophy working on Stoic physics and cosmology.
Chinese philosophical tradition based on the Daodejing and Zhuangzi, emphasizing harmony with the Dao (the Way — the natural, spontaneous ordering of all things), non-action (wu wei), and the relativity of conventional distinctions.
German Idealist philosopher who developed Naturphilosophie (nature as objective spirit), the identity philosophy (subject and object are identical in the Absolute), and late in life a philosophy of mythology and revelation.
American writer and philosopher who lived deliberately at Walden Pond, developed the theory of civil disobedience, and produced a philosophy of simplicity, wildness, and principled resistance to unjust authority.
Henry David Thoreau's philosophical memoir of his two-year experiment living deliberately in a cabin at Walden Pond, arguing for simplicity, solitude, and principled resistance to economic convention.