Emerson as a philosopherNorthwestern University, 1896 - 23 páginas |
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Absolute æsthetic ideals beauty and power become Boston C. A. Bartol cause Coleridge conscious constantly distinctness its philosoph Edwin D Emerson's philosophical Encyclopædia Britannica endeavor England transcendentalism Epictetus Epistemology essay essence Ethics falling on despotic Fate finite Friedrich Paulsen Friedrich Ueberweg G. W. Cooke George Ripley History of Intellect Houghton human soul idealist identical imperfect obedience hinders impersonal implications and affinities incarnation insight James Eliot Cabot lbid manifest Margaret Fuller metaphysical Mifflin moral movement Natural History nature is animate O. A. Brownson O. B. Frothingham occult relation exists Ontology opus cit philoso Plato poem poet primal and unitary Primal Mind problem Protestants and ascetic pure Puritan Ralph Waldo Emerson reality realize reason Ripley Saturnalia Schelling Schelling's seer Self-existence spirit standpoint tellect tendency term theist theory of knowledge things thought transcendentalism have laid trines trust truth unconscious Unitarian and commercial Universal Mind Universal Soul views virtue predict World-Soul York
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Página 12 - There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul is. Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.
Página 7 - All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat, and engage my respect as examples of its presence and impure action.
Página 7 - The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
Página 3 - Transcendentalism was a distinct philosophical system. Practically it was an assertion of the inalienable worth of man ; theoretically it was an assertion of the immanence of divinity in instinct, the transference of supernatural attributes to the natural constitution of mankind.
Página 12 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think ; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done...
Página 16 - The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
Página 2 - The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power ; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy.
Página 7 - Right, and calms itself with knowing that all thing go well. Vast spaces of nature, the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death.
Página 2 - He wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end, in all possible applications to the state of man, without the admission of anything imspiritual; that is, anything positive, dogmatic, personal.
Página 3 - Yet genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends, and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait and talent of beauty and power. This way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers ; falling on despotic times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses ; falling on superstitious times, made prophets and apostles ; on popish times, made protestants and ascetic monks, preachers of Faith against the preachers of Works ; on prelatical times, made Puritans and...