CAS WR 100 Lecture 3: Self-Reliance
4 Jul 2018
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● More inspirational and geared to get you to respond
● Uses aphorisms-short in length but huge meaning
● Interested in getting you on a level
● Franklin and emerson have different approaches
● Writing is metaphorical
● Linking things that we have to connect
● 30s and 40s pre civil war
● Eventual evolution of american culture
● Really famous
● Sage of concord
● connection -f and e are both really successful
● Meme in american writing and literature-most failures in the beginning
1. Bio
a. F born in deep poverty
b. Emerson is born into elevated social status
c. Dad is up and coming minister
d. Clergy was still respected
e. But everything changes when father died-social inclusion but still poor
f. Insider and outsider
g. Harvards goal-was to divinity to train minister
h. Gets married and falls in love he loses his chritstinity and wife dies and goes to
england heart of romantic revolution
i. Gets exposed to radical new ideas and reads all these really intereesting ideas
not present in america
j. Grief is less
2. New england industry
a. Dverse and frafmented and small companies
3. Imitation is suicide
4. Envy is ignorance
5. We mistrust ourselves
6. To beliee youtself is genius is the best thing you can think
7. Encourages nonconformity
8. Dont model emerson as a writer
9. Doesnt go deep into the way that society punishes nonconformity
a. Dont do like this
b. Pg 27 argument
c. The voice in you is not diverse from time space matter everything
d. Monist
10. Intuition can’t steer you wrong
11. Always there but might not alway hear it
12. Should listen to it-everything comes from the same source
13. Common origin-made out of the same thing
14. Attributes of monotheistic god
a. God is omnipotent-can do anything
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