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Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history. Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance.

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul". Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

Emerson's ideas are alive and well and very much with us today. Consider that Emerson, now an establishment figure, was a rebel in his time. He could find no relevance in established religion. But, unlike others, he set out to reform it. Many of his ideas now seem obvious and as American as apple pie.

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These passages from the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson on religion and spiritual philosophy reveal a metaphysical thought that is quintessentially American and universally relevant to the spiritual needs of today's world. It is seldom that an American philosopher is found among the gurus, mystics, and masters present in the spiritual milieu. Emerson combined the spiritual intuition of the East with the philosophical acumen of the West.

In zijn leven, Ralph Waldo Emerson was de meest bekende man van brieven in Amerika, tot oprichting van zichzelf als een productief dichter, essayist, veelgevraagd spreker, en pleitbezorger van sociale hervormingen. Hij werd beschouwd als een van de grote redenaars van de tijd, en zijn enthousiasme en respect voor zijn publiek in vervoering drukte. Als dichter en filosoof, leidde hij de Transcendentalist beweging, die het geloof belijdt dat alles in ouf wereld is een microkosmos van het universum, en in de oneindigheid van de individuele mens.

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Ralph Sina ist Journalist aus Leidenschaft, weil nichts aufregender ist als die Wirklichkeit. Ralph verknüpft das Spannendste aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft mit unterhaltsamem Storytelling. Er weiß, was unsere Welt bewegt, er kennt die Geschichten hinter den Geschichten und weiß sie zu erzählen.Michael Schellberg hört ihm zu und sagt ab und zu auch mal was. Damit Ralph bloß nicht damit aufhört, seine Einsichten und Erlebnisse mit uns zu teilen.Ralph Sina. Damit uns nah geht, was uns angeht.