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A 3 page paper which a difference between the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jonathan Edwards. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that perhaps guided them through their lives. However, at the same time, they were both very different in how they viewed their God and their own role in the world,
or society. The following paper examines how the two differed. Emerson and Edwards "Emersons philosophy is characterized by its reliance on intuition as the only way to comprehend
reality" (The Academy of American Poets). He was a man of faith, but his faith was not necessarily based on the Bible as much as it was based on intuition,
an inherent knowledge of mans potential, and his ability to be more than mere animals. He refused to believe in the "existence of evil" (The Academy of American Poets). In
one of his most famous works, Experience, he illustrated how ones doubts can be eliminated through faith and he "carried out his thesis that great men teach us to correct
the delirium of the animal spirits" (Ralph Waldo Emerson: Biography - Adulthood). He was considered quite a controversial thinker, but also a thinker that was truly reflective of the society
of the 19th century when people perhaps looked to something besides Christianity to find their own sense of truth. Emerson argued that people had truth within them and they only
needed to really listen in order to find it and thus live by it. Edwards was a man of God, and a man who altered the way in which
many people looked to God and also to worshipping in general. He is often been cited as the one man who truly offered up a revival of religious power in
the nation. His work generally "spoke on the difference between false belief and the truth" and it was his style, a new style of preaching, that influenced a nation (Nosotro).
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