RalphWaldoEmerson
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RalphWaldoEmerson (1803-1882) , , hewasnotacriticalorsystematicthinker, butratherachannelformanyreligious, literary, andphilosophicalcurrentsoftheearly19thcentury.
MeetingswithColeridgeandWordsworthin1833, andacontinuingfriendshipwithCarlyle, enthusedEmersonwithafusionoftheProtestantdoctrineofself-reliancewiththeromanticdoctrineoftheprimacyofpersonality, “anoriginalrelationtotheuniverse”.Hisromanticadvocacyofself-reliance, basedonanotionofthe “godwithin”, “Nature” “Self-Reliance” “TheOver-Soul” “Circles” “ThePoet” and“Experience”.Hisspeech “TheAmericanScholar” isconsideredtobeAmerica’s “IntellectualDeclarationofIndependence”.
“Nature” (commodity, beauty, language, discipline).ItcontendsthatexpansionofthehumansoulispossiblethroughareconnectionwithnatureanddevelopsEmerson’sideaofthe “Over-Soul”.
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