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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... " he writes . " Thomas Taylor , the Platonist , for instance , is really a better man of imagination , a better poet , or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet , than any man between Milton and EMERSON'S PLATONISM 7 .
... " he writes . " Thomas Taylor , the Platonist , for instance , is really a better man of imagination , a better poet , or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet , than any man between Milton and EMERSON'S PLATONISM 7 .
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... 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 , Anaximines by air , Anaxagoras by ( Nous ) ...
... 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 , Anaximines by air , Anaxagoras by ( Nous ) ...
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... conception , variety . " If specu- lation , " he says , " tends thus to a terrific unity , in which all things are absorbed , action tends directly backwards to diversity . The first is the course EMERSON'S PLATONISM 17.
... conception , variety . " If specu- lation , " he says , " tends thus to a terrific unity , in which all things are absorbed , action tends directly backwards to diversity . The first is the course EMERSON'S PLATONISM 17.
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... say , that the end of the one is escape from organization— pure science ; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality , or use of means , or executive deity . " In such a catalogue the arbitrary balancing of opposites is ...
... say , that the end of the one is escape from organization— pure science ; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality , or use of means , or executive deity . " In such a catalogue the arbitrary balancing of opposites is ...
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... says Taylor in his introductory remarks on Plato , " were invented by the Pythagoreans , in order to a reminiscence of divine concerns , to which through these as images , they en- deavor to ascend . " Plato , he adds , teaches the same ...
... says Taylor in his introductory remarks on Plato , " were invented by the Pythagoreans , in order to a reminiscence of divine concerns , to which through these as images , they en- deavor to ascend . " Plato , he adds , teaches the same ...
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