
Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Become Who You Are, Isn't It?
Emerson is clearly admonishing people to not be so concerned with consistency, at the very least that you can't know what you're becoming exactly. He says: "We denote this primary wisdom as intuition, while all later teachings are tuitions" So here it's spontaneity or instinct. That's pretty interesting, that instinct we think of as must dig the nest for my babies. There's nothing that sounds spontaneous about that. Sounds programmed. But the whole picture of this, of acting according to your character makes actually the same thing? Well, yes, because there as instinct in general. Some people have a lot of trouble tapping into that and they're completely arrested. They're
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