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个人主义作为美国民族精神和美国文化的基本特征,其包含的核心价值观随着美国成为世界强国而逐渐向全世界推展开来。这一来自欧洲的概念随着美国殖民开拓、建国和发展的历史逐步确立了一定的积极意义,形成了具有鲜明美国特征的个人主义内容。爱默生的历史功绩在于从哲学和文化上将美国个人主义确立下来;随着爱默生思想的深远影响,个人主义在美国深入人心。本文概述了爱默生个人主义思想的主要内容,对个人主义在美国演进而至成为美国民族精神核心的历史做一简单梳理,并试图分析个人主义在美国文化发展中所显露出的正面和负面意义及爱默生思想在其中的影响。
As the basic characteristic of the American national spirit and American culture, individualism gradually contains its core values as the United States becomes a world power and gradually expands to the world. This concept from Europe gradually established certain positive significance as the colonial history of colonialism, founding nation and development of the United States formed an individualistic element with distinct American characteristics. Emerson’s historic merit lies in the philosophical and cultural establishment of American individualism; with the profound influence of Emerson’s thought, individualism enjoys popular support in the United States. This essay summarizes the main contents of Emerson ’s individualism thought, makes a simple combing of the history that individualism evolved in the United States and became the core of American national spirit, and tries to analyze the positive and negative manifestations of individualism in the development of American culture Significance and influence of Emerson thought in it.