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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... light he drank in large draughts of intellectual day . The author has attempted to show this by a com- parative study of Emerson and the Platonists . In his studies the author has been helped by the labors of Dr. E. W. Emerson , whose ...
... light he drank in large draughts of intellectual day . The author has attempted to show this by a com- parative study of Emerson and the Platonists . In his studies the author has been helped by the labors of Dr. E. W. Emerson , whose ...
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... light and darkness ; good and evil ; square and oblong . The series is an arbitrary mingling of mathematical , physical and eth- ical contrasts and is a deduction from their primary theory that number is the principle of things . A ...
... light and darkness ; good and evil ; square and oblong . The series is an arbitrary mingling of mathematical , physical and eth- ical contrasts and is a deduction from their primary theory that number is the principle of things . A ...
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... light from Plato is somewhat refracted . Only by rec- ognizing the character of the sources from which Emerson drew his material can we hope to understand the part which Platonism played in satisfying the needs of his mind . A second ...
... light from Plato is somewhat refracted . Only by rec- ognizing the character of the sources from which Emerson drew his material can we hope to understand the part which Platonism played in satisfying the needs of his mind . A second ...
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... light of his critical attitude to- ward Platonism they appear as veritable sources of his thought . Emerson is specific , too , in explaining the peculiar influence which the Platonists ex- erted upon him . They were an intellectual ...
... light of his critical attitude to- ward Platonism they appear as veritable sources of his thought . Emerson is specific , too , in explaining the peculiar influence which the Platonists ex- erted upon him . They were an intellectual ...
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... lights con- spicuous in the heaven , as of a world just created and still becoming - and in its wide leisures we dare open that book . " Carlyle he writes : " I had it fully in And to my heart to write at large leisure in noble mornings ...
... lights con- spicuous in the heaven , as of a world just created and still becoming - and in its wide leisures we dare open that book . " Carlyle he writes : " I had it fully in And to my heart to write at large leisure in noble mornings ...
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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