In Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" he aims to persuade the reader simultaneously promoting the principles of transcendentalism which, after all, turns out to be a great self- help source. Through Self-Reliance Emerson expresses his views, understanding, and reasons that lead to such views, on religion, education, art, and society. Defending his reasoning, Emerson provides the reader a number of vivid examples and simultaneously creates the proof for his understanding of reason's uses to question what we are perceived to know. Closer to conclusion Emerson states that greater se…
