LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Meekness is the virtue that fosters self-awareness.
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Rely on your own instincts.
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Social customs serve a valuable purpose.
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Cruelty may be necessary to achieve philosophical goals.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The idea that one can rely on his or her own judgment, choices, and be free from these societal influences is to be self-reliant. As such, according to Transcendentalism and Emerson, it’s better to trust yourself. In some cases, if not most or all cases, to trust yourself over and above what others believe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of these statements best characterizes the central idea of Self-Reliance? Rely on your own instincts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The character traits most readily associated with self-reliance are, in no order: Reliability: You can be depended on to be consistent in everything you do. Perseverance: You keep going, weathering the storm through thick and thin. Dependability: You can be trusted to do what you say you’re going to do.
Detailed explanation-4: -Of no surprise is his favoring the bucolic life. Emerson now focuses on four social arenas in which self-reliant individuals are needed: religion, which fears creativity; culture, which devalues individualism; the arts, which teach us only to imitate; and society, which falsely values so-called progress.