Self-Reliance Self-Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." This essay is an analysis into the nature of the “aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.” The first hint of the philosophy
Philosophical essays on Freud several different interpretations, as well as various potential objections. Davidson's essay, "Paradoxes of irrationality", based on a 1978 lecture, discusses what it means for an action, belief, intention, inference or emotion to be irrational. "Philosophical essays on Freud" was published in 1982 by Cambridge University Press. "Philosophical essays on Freud" received a positive review from Francisca Goldsmith in "Library Journal", mixed reviews from Kathleen Wilkes in "The Times Literary Supplement" and the philosopher Frank Cioffi in the "London Review of Books", and a negative review in "Psychological Medicine". It was also reviewed by Eugen Baer in "Semiotica". Goldsmith described Hopkins's