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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... flux or water , or from air , or from fire , or from mind . All mix with these causes mythologic pictures . At last comes Plato , the distributor , who needs no barbaric paint , or tattoo , or whooping ; for he can define . He leaves ...
... flux or water , or from air , or from fire , or from mind . All mix with these causes mythologic pictures . At last comes Plato , the distributor , who needs no barbaric paint , or tattoo , or whooping ; for he can define . He leaves ...
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... of sense are in continual flux , and as the notices of them by the senses must , as far as they are true notices , 1 Complete Works , I. , 55 . change with them , while scientific principles or laws are 42 THE TEACHERS OF EMERSON.
... of sense are in continual flux , and as the notices of them by the senses must , as far as they are true notices , 1 Complete Works , I. , 55 . change with them , while scientific principles or laws are 42 THE TEACHERS OF EMERSON.
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... flux . This is an inheritance of Plato and the Platonists from the early philosophy of Heraclitus . As Soc- rates remarks in the Cratylus , " Heracleitus says somewhere that all things move , and nothing is at rest ; and comparing ...
... flux . This is an inheritance of Plato and the Platonists from the early philosophy of Heraclitus . As Soc- rates remarks in the Cratylus , " Heracleitus says somewhere that all things move , and nothing is at rest ; and comparing ...
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... flux of things in his view of the eternal cycle of change manifested in the universe . " All things are flowing , " he writes , " even those that seem immovable . The adamant is al- ways passing into smoke . The plants imbibe the ...
... flux of things in his view of the eternal cycle of change manifested in the universe . " All things are flowing , " he writes , " even those that seem immovable . The adamant is al- ways passing into smoke . The plants imbibe the ...
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... flux of sensible things to the necessary existence of the idea , " which subsists according to sameness , unpro- duced and not subject to decay ; receiving nothing into itself from elsewhere , and itself never entering into any other ...
... flux of sensible things to the necessary existence of the idea , " which subsists according to sameness , unpro- duced and not subject to decay ; receiving nothing into itself from elsewhere , and itself never entering into any other ...
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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