Emerson's EthicsUniversity of Missouri Press, 1999 - 182 páginas |
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... Getting It Right : Language , Literature , and Ethics , 2 . 5. Stephen E. Whicher , Freedom and Fate : An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson , 44 . Emerson nowhere shows greater affinity to the [ British ] 2 Emerson's Ethics.
... Getting It Right : Language , Literature , and Ethics , 2 . 5. Stephen E. Whicher , Freedom and Fate : An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson , 44 . Emerson nowhere shows greater affinity to the [ British ] 2 Emerson's Ethics.
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... Freedom and Fate , 175– 76 ; Porte , Emerson and Thoreau , 68-92 ; J. Edward Schamberger , " The Influence of Dugald Stewart and Richard Price on Emerson's Concept of Reason : A Reassessment " ; David M. Robinson , Apostle of Culture ...
... Freedom and Fate , 175– 76 ; Porte , Emerson and Thoreau , 68-92 ; J. Edward Schamberger , " The Influence of Dugald Stewart and Richard Price on Emerson's Concept of Reason : A Reassessment " ; David M. Robinson , Apostle of Culture ...
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... freedom , that is , maintaining one's life and liberty vis - a - vis the state , both of which rights are covered by Emerson's " right of self - defence . " Emerson felt no need to spell out the individual's rights to life and liberty ...
... freedom , that is , maintaining one's life and liberty vis - a - vis the state , both of which rights are covered by Emerson's " right of self - defence . " Emerson felt no need to spell out the individual's rights to life and liberty ...
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... freedom and intelligence , introduced as matters of speculation but as having foundations of certainty like any other science . In the lowest orders of the people the occurrences of the day are debated , the prudence or folly of ...
... freedom and intelligence , introduced as matters of speculation but as having foundations of certainty like any other science . In the lowest orders of the people the occurrences of the day are debated , the prudence or folly of ...
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SelfRealization | 57 |
Others | 90 |
Everyday Life | 115 |
Nature | 132 |
Literature | 147 |
Works Cited | 167 |
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absolute achieve action aesthetic Aristotle beauty become benevolence called categorical imperative Cavell claims Coleridge command concept concern confronted consciousness culture Divinity School Address duty Emerson says Emerson's ethics Emersonian essay everyday evil experience expression fact freedom friendship genius Gesammelte Schriften Goethe Goethe's Greek harmony Hegel human Hume ideal ideas individual inherent insight insists intellectual Joel Porte Johann Wolfgang Goethe Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Kritik der reinen language literature live M. H. Abrams means metaethical Metaphysik der Sitten mind modern moral law moral sense moral sentiment moral thought nature Nicomachean Ethics normative ethics object obvious one's perception perfect person Plato Plotinus practical reason principle pure Ralph Waldo Emerson rational reality reinen Vernunft reverence self-culture self-realization Socrates soul spirit Stanley Cavell Stoics striving symbol theoretical reason things thinker thinking transcendent true truth ultimate understanding Unitarian Unitarian Conscience universal virtue Werke words
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Página 66 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Página 83 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 123 - We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it, as we say, to the higher law of the mind. But when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels.
Página 66 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Página 27 - The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. You never can find it, till you turn your reflexion into your own breast, and find a sentiment of disapprobation, which arises in you, towards this action.
Página 65 - THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.
Página 162 - ... married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned. Not one fact in all his experience, had he yet imported into his doctrine. This man had ploughed, and planted, and talked, and bought, and sold ; he had read books ; he had eaten and drunken ; his head aches ; his heart throbs ; he smiles and suffers ; yet was there not a surmise,...
Página 53 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 90 - Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law...