Self-Reliance: Philosophies Of Transcendentalism And Individualism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-reliance, is an American romantic because it explores the philosophies of transcendentalism, and individualism. Transcendentalism is the belief that there is a higher reality, or truth that man can grasp through his intuition, not logic or science. The celebratio ....
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.... To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -that is genius.” (Emerson 222), and not from believing what another man thinks. He felt that these men were geniuses in their own time, “the heights merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.” (Emerson 222), for looking to themselves for their own truth and happiness. We should h ....
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