'I like not the man who is thinking how to be good,' Ralph Waldo
Emerson wrote, 'but the man thinking how to accomplish his work'.
The ethical emphasis on work and activity signals the shift in his
thinking that is the subject of Emerson and the Conduct of Life. In
this book, David M. Robinson describes Emerson's evolution from
mystic to pragmatist and shows the importance of Emerson's
undervalued later writing. Emerson's reputation has rested on the
addresses and essays of the 1830s and 1840s, in which he propounded
a version of transcendental idealism and memorably portrayed
moments of mystical insight. But Emerson's later thinking suggests
an increasing concern over the elusiveness of mysticism and an
increasing emphasis on ethical choice and practical power. Robinson
discusses each of Emerson's major later works noting their
increasing orientation to a philosophy of the 'conduct of life'.
These books represent Emerson's attempt to forge a philosophy based
on the centrality of domestic life, vocation and social relations
and they reveal Emerson as an ethical philosopher who stressed the
spiritual value of human relations, work and social action.
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