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Man must be so much that he renders all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a whole cause.
Self-Reliance, a text from 1841, is perhaps the most emphatic statement on the topic that dominates the rich essayistic work of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: the need for every person to free themselves from conformity and conventionality and to proceed according to their own instincts and ideas.
“When you have life within you, it does not happen in a known or usual way,” he writes. “You will not discern the footsteps of anyone else. You will not see the face of man, you will not hear any name. The path, the thought, the good, will be entirely strange and new. It will exclude previous examples and experience. You travel from man rather than towards him. Fear and hope are equally beneath it.”
A leading figure in the transcendentalism movement in the United States (though he himself never adopted the term), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) quickly distanced himself from the religious and social ideas of his contemporaries, placing the independence of the individual at the center of his philosophy and proposing a pantheistic view that brought man closer to his natural environment.
Emerson evolved into the most influential thinker of the 19th century in America, affecting literary figures such as Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau and delivering over 1500 lectures, many of which he later transformed into uniquely beautiful essays that rank him among the timeless masters of the genre.
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- Authors
- P. H. Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Publisher
- Oxy
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789604369249
Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 96
- Dimensions
- 12x16.5 cm
- Release Date
- 14/03/2023
- Publication Date
- 2023
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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