LITERATURE - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson took full advantage of my own soul my first year at university. To divorce oneself and very being from the natural world is to flatter suicide.
Humanity was doomed when his heart became a rape victim of mind.
Extinction will be the mind's perversity of the heart. The difference between a fool and wisdom is one determined to ignore the other.

thank you

i wish Emerson could see today's 'murica LOL

We have the same name. I will miss you my dear twin. I will meet you someday.🙏

Yeah, currently reading "Nature". To merely say it is deep does it no justice. Emerson was the Dean of the very first American counterculture movement; for that reason alone I wish to learn more of him and his philosophy. But it is not an easy essay to understand. No way! But some of the thoughts and complex concepts he describes in such a manner that just flies off the page and hits you with full force. And that makes it easier to get through the harder parts.

Quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. but shows a picture of Milton Friedman? I love Emerson for his style and manic aphoristic phrases, but his philosophy was mostly used for literary and poetic expression. Emerson himself, never completely ridded himself of history, culture and orthodoxy (his second wife Lidian, was devoutly Christian and even tried to convert Thoreau during his residence). He attended church with friends and while was mostly critical and bored with the experience, his journal shows that he was often still moved and inspired with the hymns and sermons. He rebelled against orthodoxy and tradition and did create a new literary genre predicated on individual freedom and expression. Yet even he rebelled against his own system. His idealism, if earnestly essayed today, would result in a person living an isolated and even cynical existence (Thoreau came closest to this ideal). Emerson was far too optimistic and socially inclined to fully realize his own philosophy which amounts to a poetic protest against blind conformity. This is mostly why New-England Transcendentalism died with him. It was simply too abstract and unhinged for people to embrace.

wow

The narrator's French as commendable.

25th May 1803 😊

His belief that nature is in us is very much a concept u see in Hinduism guess i should not be amazed by the fact that he has read the Bhagavad Gita. I am part and particle of God man that's literally like something u would find in the Vedas.

" Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

thanks i enjoyed this!

Love this writer!

A video on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would be nice too

Excellent

Beim Erforschen der Geschicht schürfe man nicht zu tief, denn oft liegen die Ursachen dicht unter der Oberfläche.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idea that each and everyone can become a 'uniquely significant human being' is brilliant and does make America stand out as a unique fascinating culture, though the idea is also found in England, an example is Mick Jagger, a uniquely brilliant individual. 'An original relation to the universe' also manifested as 'America'. But the Americans of 1850 were still 'English' - the properly American type developed in part by way of the Revolution but had to wait for high cultural events, like the 'Frontier 1850's to 1890's', the 'Civil War', 'Immigration', and the great poets, writers, composers and artists to come. It was a gradual change through time. Emerson was one of the great catalysts.
The very first individualists, however, were a number of 1700's Frenchmen, but they were more constrained by notions of 'community'. The police kept files on them, as they seemed 'strange', sitting in cafes writing their own thoughts. They rejected 'hearsay' and the 'official version of history' which was the tradition, the social custom that most French people adhered to. In that 'no generation is better or more right than the current generation' became solely 'American'. An amazing culture was to bloom through the next century, whose energy seems to have been exhausted... Thus a 150 years of Emersonian greatness.

could the individualism that ralph started an continued to preach actually be the cause and death of nature due to human nature and individualizing causing our heard(humanity as whole) run off the edge like water buffalo, as it seems that within that human nature when individualized i see those running on the treadmill of life that functions on the basis of striving to drown competition instead of watering the meadow around them.

Sounds like a vacant progressive. Pass.

Emerson should read Farid Ud-Din Attar

“What does Rome know of lizard and rat?” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My spiritual brother from another mother 😊

I need to know Emerson’s contributions to American literature?

Technically nature is Goddess, being female and such. Still, Emerson is a drink of water and a return to Pagan form after many long painful years in the judeo christian dessert. Cheers;)

For the ministry. Not for the priesthood. Unitarian ministers are not priests - not intermediaries. Emerson was never part of religious 'orthodoxy'. He was a Unitarian. His disagreement with some Unitarians was over scripture as basis of religious authority. The shift was to religious authority residing in individual conscience, (Matt, a Unitarian minister)

Juger

You should do one on Coleridge.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Emerson

OK so he was a pantheist.

He's amazing 👏!!

Yes

This writer seems very scholar in his writing. I have an idea for a novel. It would be called Duck and Hide the Evidence. This novel is about crooked cops who is involved in corruption. In helping mobsters frame a woman over her painting that she painted.. these crooked cops, delete video camera and paying people to lie. In order to help mobsters. In this novel, they planning on murdering her, because they want her painting, so to help the mob.

the American political leaders of the 20 and 21 centuries should have been inspired by Emerson Ralph Waldo. and pursue the American way of life and American originality. not looking to European affairs neither to the past...European leaders always search for support from others, be American of African countries. European political leaders have a mercantile spirit, nostalgic of colonialism age

I share the same idea of God. Far removed from the mental confines of religion.

A man's shortcomings are but shadows of his achievements.

Beautiful

harry styles ?? anyone here because of him ? 🤡

His words bring me to tears it’s so beautiful

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds…A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

My ancestor on two different lines!

Any reason why there is a picture of Milton Friedman on the screen @:38? The "America's intellectual declaration of independence" line was from Oliver Wendell Holmes...

RWE

Once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen - ralph waldo emerson

So this is the guy who began the whole 'Muricah thing?