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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 celebration ....
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....cause it is his.” (Emerson 222) We often do not trust ourselves enough to find truth, so we choose to depend on others. All we know is within us, but we assume that others think the same as we do. Self-trust is internal, and Emerson believes all humans have this power, they just do not apply it. Every man must arrive to believe that “ envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse...’, for that is self-trust. (Emerson 223)
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