The Teachers of EmersonSturgis & Walton, 1910 - 325 páginas This book is about the influence of Greek philosophy on Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings. John S. Harrison argues that Emerson primarily drew his inspiration from Greek thought and not German/Eastern teachings. |
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... Plutarch's Morals he found a rich mine of quotation and comment in which the earlier Greek philosophers figure conspicuously . 1 Ibid . , IV . , 47 . 2 The Works of Plato , translated by Thomas Taylor , III . , 240 . " Plutarch occupies ...
... Plutarch's Morals he found a rich mine of quotation and comment in which the earlier Greek philosophers figure conspicuously . 1 Ibid . , IV . , 47 . 2 The Works of Plato , translated by Thomas Taylor , III . , 240 . " Plutarch occupies ...
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John Smith Harrison. " Plutarch occupies a unique place in liter- ature , " Emerson writes , " as an encyclopædia of Greek and Roman antiquity . Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction , in opinion , in character , in institutions , in ...
John Smith Harrison. " Plutarch occupies a unique place in liter- ature , " Emerson writes , " as an encyclopædia of Greek and Roman antiquity . Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction , in opinion , in character , in institutions , in ...
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... Plutarch , Cudworth and De Gérando , were in Emerson's library . Plutarch and Cudworth were great favorites with Emerson ; and Plutarch was of value to him other than as a preserver of fragments of ancient thought . His interpretation ...
... Plutarch , Cudworth and De Gérando , were in Emerson's library . Plutarch and Cudworth were great favorites with Emerson ; and Plutarch was of value to him other than as a preserver of fragments of ancient thought . His interpretation ...
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... Plutarch had embodied a mass of opinion on nature in his Morals.2 Emer- son did not esteem the bulk of these opinions very highly ; he thought them very crude ; many of them puerile . But , he fails not to add , " Usually , when Thales ...
... Plutarch had embodied a mass of opinion on nature in his Morals.2 Emer- son did not esteem the bulk of these opinions very highly ; he thought them very crude ; many of them puerile . But , he fails not to add , " Usually , when Thales ...
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... . " 2 The symbolism of things is a recognized tenet of the Platonists . Plutarch , especially , 1 Complete Works , I. , 25 . 2 Bohn translation , III . , 391 . is given to elucidating the symbolical meaning of myths , NATURE 35.
... . " 2 The symbolism of things is a recognized tenet of the Platonists . Plutarch , especially , 1 Complete Works , I. , 25 . 2 Bohn translation , III . , 391 . is given to elucidating the symbolical meaning of myths , NATURE 35.
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according ancient appear Bacon beauty behold body Bohn translation called cause celestial love character Coleridge Coleridge's Complete conception correlation Cudworth Dæmonic dæmons divine doctrine earth Emer Emerson found Emerson's mind ence essay essence eternal evil explains eyes F. B. Sanborn fable Fate finds flux gods Hence Heraclitus highest Hindoo holds human Iamblichus Ibid idea ideal illusions imitation ineffable intel intellect intuition Kant light manner method of nature moral mystic experience Neo-Platonic Ocellus Lucanus oracle Over-Soul Parmenides passage Phædo Phædrus phantasy philosophy Platonists Plotinus Plutarch poem poet poetry principle Proclus pure Pythagorean Ralph Waldo Emerson reading reason relation Samuel Taylor Coleridge says Select soul speaks Sphinx spirit subsist symbol Synesius tains teaching Theology of Plato theory thinking Thomas Taylor thou thought Timæus of Plato tion True Intellectual System truth ture union Universal Mind vision whole writes