You're listening to the partially examined life a philosophy podcast by some guys who

had one point said on doing philosophy for living but then thought and thought and thought

better of it.

Our question for episode 103 is something like what's the best way to live and we'll

be discussing Henry David Thoreau as a walled in from 1854.

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This is Mark Linton Meyer talking to you from Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Aulon in Boston, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey wishing he was in the woods in middle of the Wisconsin.

Oh, but isn't reading this book just as good as being in the woods.

No, but it makes me want to be there.

That's for sure.

Did you feel like his descriptions of nature that you could like you were there or is

it merely a shadow or the words merely a shadow of the experience, not the reality.

And so it's ultimately a signifier, but that's it.

The word signifier never came to my mind when I was reading Walden, Mark.

I find, of course, it's not the same thing, but I find his descriptions, both of people

and of the environment just captivating.

Yeah, I agree.

I said on the Emerson podcast that I wasn't a fan of Thoreau, but that was a long time ago.

And I actually listened to it on tape.

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