... by becoming extremely well read. Studying works by accomplished thinkers including Hume, Montaigne, Goethe, Plato, Wordsworth, Carlyle, and Pythagoras allowed Emerson to learn about and expand on his own beliefs. Applying all the great literature he read, Emerson habitually logged his thought processes in his extensive journals as well as discovered the power of poetry. A fiery, passionate, profound and ... be more creative, continually reinventing ourselves in our quest for selfhood. Derived from a stable and influential educational background, Thoreau made friends among other well-de...

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... conformity and adopting a lifestyle dictated not by society but by one's own inherent sense of morality. Henry David Thoreau, the intellectual heir to Emerson's transcendental throne, carries on in this vein in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an ... majority demonstrate this deficiency. The middle and lower class majority cannot afford, neither economically nor socially, to be non-conformists as Emerson and Thoreau prescribe. For Emerson, "The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It l...

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... change their natural feature, to become more beautiful, also they tend to use creams and cosmetics to tightening and whitening their skins. Finally, In America Emerson has written a complete essay about immortality, he said "the soul is not born, it does not die; it was not produced from anyone ..."[Sta44 ... morals. Here is the representation of it in the Egyptian and Indian cultures. In ancient Egyptian culture , people especially Pharaohs used Mummification to express their beliefs in life after death , for example; they used to mummified their kings and superiors with their jewelry ,...

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... anxieties aren't especially new - we need only recall Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984 - the Unabomber's call to a revolution against technology and his readiness to shed blood for his beliefs set him apart. Most intellectuals and philosophers aren't willing to kill for their ideas; most terrorists, on the other hand, aren't willing or able to explain their motives (not infrequently ... - which he sent to the New York Times and Washington Post demanding publication within three months "or else" - reveals a number of literary influences from Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad to Nietz...

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