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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... knowledge ; and this dialectic he main- tains Plato elaborated . Thus his exposition goes on to say : " Having paid his homage , as for the human race , to the Illimitable , he ( Plato ) then stood erect , and for the human race ...
... knowledge ; and this dialectic he main- tains Plato elaborated . Thus his exposition goes on to say : " Having paid his homage , as for the human race , to the Illimitable , he ( Plato ) then stood erect , and for the human race ...
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... knowledge of ideas gave them idealism and truthfully reflected Plato . The conception of an ineffable unity of things above all knowledge necessitated a mysticism ; and this they professed to find in Plato . Such criticism Emerson ...
... knowledge of ideas gave them idealism and truthfully reflected Plato . The conception of an ineffable unity of things above all knowledge necessitated a mysticism ; and this they professed to find in Plato . Such criticism Emerson ...
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... knowledge . " The baffled in- tellect , " he says , " must still kneel before this cause , which refuses to be named - ineffable cause , which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol , as , Thales by water ...
... knowledge . " The baffled in- tellect , " he says , " must still kneel before this cause , which refuses to be named - ineffable cause , which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol , as , Thales by water ...
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... knowledge : one , possession ; the other , trade : one , caste ; the other , culture : one , king ; the other , democracy : and , if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say ...
... knowledge : one , possession ; the other , trade : one , caste ; the other , culture : one , king ; the other , democracy : and , if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say ...
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... knowledge of Pythagorean beliefs and he had found there an account of the series of elements comprising the universe . The idea was at once taken up , for it chimed in with a favorite way of looking at things even from boyhood when " he ...
... knowledge of Pythagorean beliefs and he had found there an account of the series of elements comprising the universe . The idea was at once taken up , for it chimed in with a favorite way of looking at things even from boyhood when " he ...
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