Self-Reliance
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Publisher Description
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet, who is best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a a champion of individualism and wrote dozens of essays. Most criics consider "Self-Reliance" his best. It has the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency. It also emphasized the need to follow one's own instincts and ideas. "Self-Reliance" contains one of Emerson's most famous quotes: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Customer Reviews
Proper title: supreme individuality
A ling winded argumentation on why my individual proclivities are unique and part of my unalieniating nature. On how independant individuals always seem to know best simply based on their subjective experiences. How institutions and cooperation have nothing to give to the truly self reliant person. An ode to something we today have implemented without becoming self reliant...