The Embers and the Stars | 
#AyupAugust
(Day 21 - #UnderneathTheStars)
*Erazim Kohák is a Czech national whose family escaped to the US in 1948. While on sabbatical from Boston College, he built a cabin—without and beyond the borders of electricity—in the mountains of New Hampshire. He spent his time there writing one of the greatest philosophical considerations of nature and the environment and our moral obligations to it ever written. Comparisons to Thoreau are ⬇ï¸
gradcat â¬†ï¸ (cont.) numerous, facile and over-simplifications. Comparing “The Embers and the Stars†to Thoreau‘s “Walden†is highly reductive and does not do Kohák justice. â™¥ï¸ (edited) 5y
Cinfhen Cool 5y
gradcat @Cinfhen 😎ðŸ˜â™¥ï¸ 5y
squirrelbrain I‘d love to know more about his life in the cabin! 5y
gradcat It‘s a really interesting book, but I fear life in the cabin is used more as his ambience...there‘s some stories of his living there, but the book is chiefly about moral philosophy historically, and eco-morality currently. You could live like this—it is possible—but if not, the very least we can do is have an environmental ethics to live by. 5y
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