 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 páginas
...sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses maybe from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. 1 This pointed moral challenge to the idea of self-reliance is given a still more central and powerful... | |
 | Allan Lloyd-Smith - 2004 - 209 páginas
...Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1960) p. 42. 30. But Emerson also could say, in "Experience": "but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." 31. Frontier Gothic, David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne B. Karpinski, eds. (London and Toronto:... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 páginas
...within," and that, while his "impulses" seem to him to come not "from below," but "from above," even if "I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (E&L 261-62). Given his equation of infinitude with the individual, and the categorical imperative... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 páginas
...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested - 'But these impulses may be from...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." 34. Oeuvres completes, 824. Cf. III. 5; 956: "I am content with less praise provided that I am more... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 páginas
...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested — 'But these impulses may be...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil'" (CW 1:30). In this passage, Emerson shifts the foundations of duty from tradition to the self. The... | |
 | M. William Phelps - 2006 - 412 páginas
...she put the receiver to her mouth. "I'm going to prove you are the liar, Carl." not from above . . . but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson THE RUSE It was five days before the winter solstice. December 16, 2004, started... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
...indicates. "On my saying What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,— 'But these impulses may be...Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.'" For Emerson, "sacredness" was now a matter of internal disposition and personal perception. He believed... | |
 | Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 páginas
...On my saying, "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." (Complete Writings 138) Dickinson has revisioned two texts with great cultural importance — one sacred,... | |
 | Hugh Ridley - 2007 - 319 páginas
...opportunities of life and care not for external norms, but establish their own compelling imperatives. 'No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names [...] the only right is what is after my constitution' (E 262). Emerson therefore uses a 25 Goethe's... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 páginas
...worried that the involuntary perceptions that Emerson so esteems "may be from below, not from above": "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (CW2, 30). Barbara Packer finds this remark ironic because a "decorous ex-minister in the town of Concord"... | |
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They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after... 
