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Wilde was wryly criticizing tonalist painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler's artistic output not being consistent with Whistler's own art-theory lecturing, in the same breath as Wilde decrying, as uncreative, a consistency between an artist's artworks themselves (and thereby praising Whistler's actual work if not theory).
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency, an essay on the misuse of famous writers' fragmentary quotations about consistency; Wikipedia:Consistency proposal, a failed 2006 proposal for a consistency guideline for facts in articles (formerly at Wikipedia:Consistency)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced as a theory both of justification and of knowledge. Process reliabilism has been used as an argument against philosophical skepticism, such as the brain in a vat thought experiment. [1] Process reliabilism is a form of epistemic externalism. [1]
Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...
Representative Men (1850). Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great:
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