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expositions-1843	none	American Paideia: Public and Private Leadership and the Cultivation of Civic Virtue	2015	24	.pdf	application/pdf	9051	628	63	The problem, as Emerson sees it, is that man is divorced from nature and, consequently, alienated from himself.49 Emerson portrays alienated man as the opposite of the child who is described as being whole.50 Children are whole in the sense that their inward and outward senses remain truly adjusted to one another.51 This allows the child to be “independent” whereas the divided adult is “clapped into jail” by his or her 137 Barkalow consciousness.52 By consciousness, Emerson does not refer to the internal mechanism that regulates human behavior. The scholar aids us is the re- discovery of our soul and the ethical codes that reside there.94 Emerson, like Plato’s statesman, recognizes that the great aim of philosophy and education is the soul.95 Only when the soul is properly educated is liberation possible and, at a political level, is genuine self-governance possible.96 Emersonian Prospects	cache/expositions-1843.pdf	txt/expositions-1843.txt