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Self-Reliance - Papers Online

Self-Reliance

Self reliance in Emmersons view is to look upon the world and yourself,
seeing the resources available to you and working with them in a fashion
which makes you feel you are productive. Deeper than that it's a
understanding of what your personal role is in the universe, and acceptance
of that justifying it only to ones self.

I don't believe one could be truly self reliant and selfish, because self
reliance means an understanding of the world around you in order to be
independent enough to find confidence with in yourself to exist self
reliantly. I think that one could be very independent though, and at the
same time be selfish. A person of such mind set would view them self as ...

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but also
understands and possibly respects them making for a more harmonious
existence.

This is all highly objective in nature, and considering it's three am I
could very well think differently about this entire issue when I actually
go to bed and wake up. Philosophy is a really moody thing. It can be
interpreted a hundred different ways depending on what events or place is
shaping the ...

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Added: 3/22/2008 01:07:04 PM
Category: English
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