Politics (essay) Politics (essay) "Politics" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is part of his "Essays: Second Series", published in 1844. A premier philosopher, poet and leader of American transcendentalism, he used this essay to belie his feelings on government, specifically American government. His impact on New England thought and his views on pragmatism influenced the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, and Frederich Nietzsche, among others. Although not viewed as his most important essay in the second series, Emerson’s views on politics championed democracy and individualism, two ideas that are viewed today as undoubtedly American. By 1844,
Essays on Truth and Reality of Willard Van Orman Quine. Essays on Truth and Reality Essays on Truth and Reality is a 1914 book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author expounds his philosophy of absolute idealism and gives the classic statement of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge. The British philosopher Timothy Sprigge has suggested that in some respects Bradley's absolute idealism receives a better exposition in "Essays on Truth and Reality" than it had in Bradley's earlier work "Appearance and Reality" (1893). He notes that Bradley's coherence theory of truth is the classic statement of such a position,