An Oration Delivered Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, By Ralph Waldo Emerson - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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""An Oration Delivered Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society"" is a book written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book is a transcript of a speech that Emerson delivered in 1837 before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a prestigious academic society in the United States. In this speech, Emerson discusses the importance of intellectual independence and individualism in the pursuit of knowledge and personal growth. He encourages his audience to think for themselves and to reject conformity and conventionality in their intellectual pursuits. Emerson's ideas have had a profound impact on American culture and…mehr

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""An Oration Delivered Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society"" is a book written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book is a transcript of a speech that Emerson delivered in 1837 before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a prestigious academic society in the United States. In this speech, Emerson discusses the importance of intellectual independence and individualism in the pursuit of knowledge and personal growth. He encourages his audience to think for themselves and to reject conformity and conventionality in their intellectual pursuits. Emerson's ideas have had a profound impact on American culture and have helped to shape the country's intellectual and cultural landscape. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, philosophy, or literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." His first two collections of essays, Essays represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet," and "Experience." Together with "Nature," these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson is one of several figures who took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world. He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.