Self-Reliance
Trusting oneself completely
Self-Reliance is Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential 1841 essay advocating individualism and trust in one's own instincts over social conformity.
The essay contains famous lines like "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and helped define American transcendentalism: I reread Self-Reliance every few years. (Lowercase self-reliance is the general concept.)
Anglo surname, various namesakes
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
Walden · self-actualization · existentialism · freethought · Stoicism · Ayn Rand · self-examination · introspection
Emerson
Anglo surname, various namesakes
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
nonconformity · Walden · self-actualization · existentialism · freethought · Stoicism · Ayn Rand · self-examination · introspection · self-discovery
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- essaysessay, personal essay, formal essay, critical essays, informal essay
- Transcendentalist WorksWalden, Brahma, Transcendentalism
- American PoetryWalt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes
- Great BooksMeditations, Leviathan, The Prince, Utopia, Walden
Self-Reliancedependence
State of needing another
dependency · codependence · codependency · helplessness · overdependence
Self-Reliancecollectivism
Group primacy doctrine
communalism · interdependence · communitarianism · mutual dependence · socialism
Self-Reliancesubordination
Lower position in hierarchy
subservience · deference · obedience · compliance · servility
reliable, reliance, unreliable, reliability, reliably, unreliability, self-reliant, unreliably