“Selected Essays and Ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson” (cont.)

Join Plato's Cave philosophers and UU Inquiring Minds this Sunday morning, November 11 at 9:00.

This Sunday:
Back this week by popular demand, Moderator StoicDan, Plato's Cave and Inquiring Minds will continue the discussion on “Selected Essays and Ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson”.

StoicDan is the organizer of Orlando Stoics, Tampa Stoics, and The Emerson & Thoreau Discussion Group.

Dan’s introduction:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a philosopher and poet in the transcendentalist movement. He was one of the leading intellectuals in the United States in the 1800s, and his essays discuss individuality, virtue, freedom, and nonconformity. We'll briefly review his essays "Self-Reliance", "History", "Friendship", "The Over-Soul", "Nature" and "The Poet".

We will also review Emerson's relationship to the church and his spirituality.

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Coffee? Yes.

Here are links to the complete essays:

"Nature" (published 1836): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29433/29433-h/29433-h.htm
"The Poet" (published 1844): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69389/from-the-poet
"The American Scholar" (a lecture 1837): https://emersoncentral.com/texts/nature-addresses-lectures/addresses/the-american-scholar/
"Woman" (a lecture 1855): http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/emerson/essays/woman.html

Links to summaries of the essays:

"Nature": https://www.shmoop.com/transcendentalism/nature-characteristic-nature-emerson-example.html
"The Poet": https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/e/emersons-essays/summary-and-analysis-of-the-poet/about-the-poet
"The American Scholar": http://www.supersummary.com/the-american-scholar/summary/
"Woman": (no review found, but there's a New Yorker article on Margaret Fuller) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/01/an-unfinished-woman

General articles on Emerson, his life, his works (optional):
https://www.iep.utm.edu/emerson/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emerson/

We will also review Emerson's relationship to the church and his spirituality.

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StoicDan Meetups: Emerson & Thoreau Discussion Group
Current Discussion: "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau (Chapter 1, Part 4)
First Thursday each month, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Panera Bread, 11472 University Blvd, Orlando, FL 32817
More information: https://www.meetup.com/Emerson-Thoreau/