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Apr 6, 2016 · “We all have the same inner life,” the great painter Agnes Martin observed. “The difference lies in the recognition. The artist has to recognize what it is.” Decades later, Cheryl Strayed considered the raw material of that recognition in an altogether magnificent conversation: “When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the ...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Self-Reliance’ is an influential 1841 essay by the American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82). In this essay, Emerson argues that we should get to know our true selves rather than looking to other people to fashion our individual thoughts and ideas for us.
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Published in 1841, the Self Reliance essay is a deep-dive into self-sufficiency as a virtue. In the essay "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson advocates for individuals to trust in their own instincts and ideas rather than blindly following the opinions of society and its institutions.
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Oct 27, 2014 · Four Quartets captures the essence of human life as we experience it in the flesh, not as an abstraction. Eliot presents the reader with a vision of eternity and permanence as the ground of vital human reality. The strength of Eliot’s thought is the recognition of a hierarchical ordering of human existence.
Aug 15, 2019 · Chapter © 2021. I want to start to explore the way the self has been conceptualised—throughout history—by focusing on a number of recurring themes: using them as a way of isolating the key questions we need to reflect upon to make sense of the emergence and transformation of the self.
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Apr 22, 2013 · 14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936 – The Marginalian. By Maria Popova. The quest for intellectual growth and self-improvement through education has occupied yesteryear’s luminaries like Bertrand Russell and modern-day thinkers like Sir Ken Robinson and Noam Chomsky.
Jan 31, 2022 · ForewordPersonal identity 101 was designed as an independent series of articles around the topic of identity and self. It joins various philosophical, psychological, and sociological theories with the aim of explaining the importance of personal identity and inspiring discussion on different existential questions. Articles will be saturated with diverse ideas and concepts, anticipated or ...
