Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About This Book
For more than half a century, Philosopher Robert Paul Wolff has been thinking and writing about the great figures of eighteenth century philosophy and about the ideals and realities of American higher education. In this first volume of his collected published and unpublished papers, a number of those writings are collected and made available. The volume opens with Wolff's very earliest published writings, including a letter to the Harvard Crimson that sparked a ten year controversy between two scholars with the same name and diametrically opposed political opinions, and an impassioned defence ...
Chapters (18)
- ESSAYS
- DAVID HUME
- With Biographical Introduction by Hannaford Bennett
- Biographical Introduction
- Essays
- OF THE DELICACY OF TASTE AND PASSION
- OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS
- THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE
- OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT
- OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT
- OF THE INDEPENDENCY OF PARLIAMENT[1]
- WHETHER THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT INCLINES MORE TO ABSOLUTE MONARCHY OR TO A REPUBLIC
- OF PARTIES IN GENERAL
- OF THE PARTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN
- OF SUPERSTITION AND ENTHUSIASM
- OF THE DIGNITY OR MEANNESS OF HUMAN NATURE
- OF CIVIL LIBERTY
- OF ELOQUENCE
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