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The essay on self-reliance. By: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Original Version )
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ISBN10: 1536901415
ISBN13: 9781536901412
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 4 2016
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.05 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781536901412
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 4 2016
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.05 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Self-Reliance is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.[1] This essay is an analysis into the nature of the aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.The first hint of the philosophy that would become Self-Reliance was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerson as part of a sermon in September 1830 a month after his first marriage. His wife Ellen was sick with tuberculosis and, as Emerson's biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote, Immortality had never been stronger or more desperately needed! From 1836 into 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately, but many of his thoughts in these were later used in Self-Reliance and several other essays. Later lectures by Emerson led to public censure of his radical views, the staunch defense of individualism in Self-Reliance being a possible reaction to that censure. Self-Reliance was first published in his 1841 collection, Essays: First Series. Emerson helped start the beginning of the Transcendentalist movement in America. Self-Reliance is one of Emerson's most famous essays. Emerson wrote on individualism, personal responsibility, and nonconformity
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