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Representative Men
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's lectures on Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Goethe as types of greatness. Character study as philosophy.
Read it if…
you want Emerson on great lives.
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Skip it if…
you want his essays.
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Three things you will actually use
- Great men are lenses.
- Use them, do not worship them.
- Find your type.
Do this first
Read the chapter on Montaigne.
Our verdict
Emerson's great men.
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