The Conduct Of Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct Of Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Conduct Of Life

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Glenn

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2023


Synopsis

This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life but also is an amalgam of what life taught Emerson.Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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 Georgia on August 05, 2024

He reads my mind. How can I fault him? My flaws are virtues in his view. Ever buoyant in my passions, we are kindred spirits. "Love the day," Emerson says. And I do. Take this up without reservation. Open to any page and breath in. Think of rolling banks of soft lawn by a river, a blanket spread bene......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 19, 2020

The guy could write a sentence. Seriously. And he wore his learning lightly. If you’re tuned to it, you can see how he is responding to philosophical developments of the preceding century with wit and originality. Or you can just revel, as I did, in the imagery and phrasing. Beautiful.......more

Goodreads review by Marshall on March 16, 2010

This is a book Emerson wrote in the latter years of his career, and it really shows how much he's changed both as a person and in his philosophy. He's become more balanced, more practical, less radical, less idealistic. You can't find a more practical topic than the conduct of life! Some of these es......more

Goodreads review by ❧TheTrueScholar on June 10, 2018

There is always a best way of doing everything. —Behaviour __________ I suffer, every day, from the want of perception of beauty in people. They do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished . . . —Culture Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the......more