Self-Reliance+?'s

Jonathan Layne Honors English May 18, 2010  Emerson’s “Self Reliance” Questions   1) What is needed for self-reliance? Why is this important?  All that's needed for being self-reliant is self-honesty and the will to act upon it.  2) What are the two major barriers to self-reliance (in your own words)?  One barrier of self-reliance is when its sense of morality crosses with that of others. Emerson speaks of self-reliance in the context of one using one's own physical or mental power to do what one feels is right. For all one knows, what may feel right to one may be seem wrong to everyone else.