Ralph Waldo Emerson · Philosophy
Emerson’s doctrine that a law of justice is woven into the very structure of the universe - that every act rewards or punishes itself, that nothing can be gained without a corresponding loss, and that the moral order is as exact and inescapable as the laws of physics.
You learned that Emerson’s doctrine of compensation holds that a moral law of balance runs through all of nature - ‘every act rewards itself,’ cause and effect cannot be severed, and for everything gained something is lost - so that justice is structural, not accidental. Explain these ideas in your o…
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