Prudence

Name: Prudence
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781974910946

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/21/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

The essay on Prudence was given as a lecture in a course on Human Culture, in the winter of 1837-8. It was published in the first series of Essays, which appeared in 1841. In it, Emerson describes Prudence as The virtue of the senses and admits to having little of it in himself.

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Although he began his career as a Unitarian minister, he gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism instead. Seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, he disseminated his thoughts through published essays and public lectures across the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skye

“Poetry and prudence should be coincident. Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code and the day’s work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted. We have violated law upon law until we stand am......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

On the other hand, nature punishes any neglect of prudence. If you think the senses final, obey their law. If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect percepti......more

Goodreads review by Sean

THe blurb here says one of the many essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, well that is accurate and it is about prudence without being dense or about Prue.......more

Goodreads review by Cody James

Standard Emerson. Divide and define. Wonderful.......more