BUS 1050 1nd Edition Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture I End of Maphisto and Faust Outline of Current Lecture II Walden Plato III The World Is Much With Us Current Lecture Food clothing shelter fuel transport cooking warmth etc what we really need How much do we need though It s more efficient to buy rather than make it yourself He does some accounting how much to build a house grow crops etc in the first chapter Economy he was very practical Life should be a pastime not a hardship have to be efficient in order to get free time which makes life a pastime The more efficient productive we are the more options we have available Finer fruit are the arts according to Thoreau p 84 l 45 Living in quiet desperation meaning today living pay check to paycheck There is a limit of what we need crossing that limit we start living in quiet desperation paycheck to paycheck According to Thoreau you can avoid the above fact by living simply do what you enjoy don t follow the pack don t have expectations of others The World Is Too Much With Us Materialism is a distraction Nature is the most important to Wordsworth We are out of touch with nature according to him These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute
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