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Often appears with: education and the training of the young · women’s labor in small businesses · will, choice, and freedom · subjective mind · self-knowledge · reason and the intellect · poverty and wealth · memory and imagination · marriage and betrothal · lifelong learning decline · lack of teachers · household consumption and luxury
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“We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife.” Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · precept
It suggests Plato’s ideas can still elevate modern life, but argues self-education after youth is hard because people lack teachers and self-knowledge, leading to mental stagnation.
is really the ideal life of the philosopher or man of genius, interrupted, but only for a time, by practical duties,—a life not for the many, but for the few. Yet the thought of Plato may not be wholly incapable of application to our own times. Even if regarded as an ideal which can never be realized, it may have a great effect in elevating the characters of mankind, and raising them above the routine of their ordin…
Hegel outlines subjective Mind as cognitive in three modes—implicit soul (anthropology), explicit consciousness (Phenomenology), and independent subject (psychology)—and distinguishes education from self-instruction within mind’s own development.
§ 387. Mind, on the ideal stage of its development, is mind as *cognitive*: Cognition, however, being taken here not as a merely logical category of the Idea (§ 223), but in the sense appropriate to the *concrete* mind. Subjective mind is:— (A) Immediate or implicit: a soul—the Spirit in *Nature*—the object treated by *Anthropology*. (B) Mediate or explicit: still as identical reflection into itself and into other…
Franklin describes how the subscription library enabled daily self-improvement, and he ties his frugal study routine and industry to his wife’s help, plain living, and gradual move toward household luxuries.
yourself will be encouraged to claim it, and then even envy will be disposed to do you justice by plucking those assumed feathers, and restoring them to their right owner. This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair'd in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me. Reading was the only amusement I…