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Representative men. Nature : addresses and lectures. by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Representative Men contains seven essays, the first of which discusses the role great men play in society. The remaining six essays extoll the virtues of six men whom Emerson deemed great: Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature contains the essence of Emerson's transcendental philosophy in which the world of phenomena is seen as symbolic of the inner life, and individual freedom and self-reliance are emphasized. Emerson's addresses apply his doctrine to scholars, clergymen, and others
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, 1883.
- Published
- 1883
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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