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A 7 page paper which answers questions, provided by the student, regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance.” No additional sources cited.
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of humans to do what is right and find truth, a universal truth. It was an essay that seemed, to many, to ignore or push aside religious beliefs, and essentially
go for what we call a transcendentalist approach to life and living. The following paper answers questions about the essay, the questions having been provided by the student requesting this
particular essay. Self-Reliance 1) What are some of the assumptions behind Emersons ideas? Emerson believed that we all have an innate sense of truth, and often ignore
it. In the first paragraph of his essay he indicates the following in these regards: "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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense..A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam
of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is
his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (Emerson 1). This is perhaps the strongest
assumption that Emerson makes in this essay, using it as a foundation for all of his other examinations and deviations from topic to topic. The point is that too often
humans ignore their own sense of the truth in light of the societys rules and demands. They do not trust their own perception of what truth is, and thus are
not self reliant and follow the majority. If people listened to their own internal truth, saw those images of truth, the world would likely be a better place. 2)
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