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" No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Psychotherapy and the Self-righteous Patient

E. Mark Stern, Jerome A. Travers - 1991 - 190 pages
...forgiveness. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. — Emerson, "Self-Reliance" Essays, First Series (1841) Deciding whether self-righteous patients have...
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The Depleted Self: Sin in a Narcissistic Age

Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...independent individual, one must also be a social nonconformist, and carry oneself as though "everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to...names, to large societies and dead institutions." Nonconformity involves, above all else, objecting "to usages that have become dead to you," and that,...
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The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America

Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. ... A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.41 Small wonder that Emerson's admiring readers would include the young Friedrich Nietzsche.42...
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Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution Out of the Spirit of Music

E. Michael Jones - 1994 - 214 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Both Nietzsche and Wagner came from the birthplace of Lutheranism; both repudiated their background....
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Form and Fable in American Fiction

Daniel Hoffman - 1994 - 396 pages
...own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. The evening's lecture was 'Self-Reliance'; the lecturer, an accomplished impersonator who, on other...
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America's Bachelor Uncle: Thoreau and the American Polity

Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1996 - 200 pages
...therefore, your own world."3 It is also a message of "Self-Reliance," where Emerson scolds us, saying, "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."4 The freedom Emerson seeks is a freedom beyond history because in his view history gives...
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Life's Golden Tree: Essays in German Literature from the Renaissance to Rilke

Thomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield - 1996 - 334 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. (SR 2:30) Emerson brushes aside the dualistic principles of below and above, of good and evil, God...
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The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between

Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...takes another step: "Good and bad are but names readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." (The anticipation of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals is no accident.) Such a remark seems uniformly...
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Peckinpah: The Western Films : a Reconsideration

Paul Seydor - 1999 - 442 pages
...Which brings us full circle to the Emerson who advised men to trust their instincts: "the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Women come to be identified, at least in the form of wife and mother, or, more generally, family, as...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" (Essays, 262). And: "As great a stake depends on your private act to-day, as followed their public...
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