Emerson's EthicsUniversity of Missouri Press, 1999 - 182 páginas |
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... ideal structure. Ideas, moreover, often develop in ways unrelated to any experience: they connect, interact, combine, refine in accordance with "ideal" principles, with laws of thoughtitself. Thought frequently does its own thinking. As ...
... ideal structure. Ideas, moreover, often develop in ways unrelated to any experience: they connect, interact, combine, refine in accordance with "ideal" principles, with laws of thoughtitself. Thought frequently does its own thinking. As ...
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... ideal, perfect, eternal, unique "Form of the Good" (h ̄e ton agathou idea), which, in A. E. Taylor's words, "is the supreme value and the source of all other values."11 Emerson's early allegiance to this Platonic view is obvious when he.
... ideal, perfect, eternal, unique "Form of the Good" (h ̄e ton agathou idea), which, in A. E. Taylor's words, "is the supreme value and the source of all other values."11 Emerson's early allegiance to this Platonic view is obvious when he.
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... ideal worth pursuing. II Emerson devotes the remaining pages (106-35) of "The Present State of Ethical Philosophy" to a rapid survey of developments in moral philosophy subsequent to the Greeks and to an examination of major questions ...
... ideal worth pursuing. II Emerson devotes the remaining pages (106-35) of "The Present State of Ethical Philosophy" to a rapid survey of developments in moral philosophy subsequent to the Greeks and to an examination of major questions ...
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... ideal of the sage, they revealed a quite unsympathetic attitude toward common mortals. As Herschel Baker comments, "Obviously, few could be sages, and in their moral rigidity the Stoics . . . despised the mass of mankind." The pride ...
... ideal of the sage, they revealed a quite unsympathetic attitude toward common mortals. As Herschel Baker comments, "Obviously, few could be sages, and in their moral rigidity the Stoics . . . despised the mass of mankind." The pride ...
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... ideal one associates with the mature Emerson, but at this point he, like his teachers and contemporaries, was convinced that any important theoretical endeavor needed to be translated into systematic form. Jonsen and Toulmin have shown ...
... ideal one associates with the mature Emerson, but at this point he, like his teachers and contemporaries, was convinced that any important theoretical endeavor needed to be translated into systematic form. Jonsen and Toulmin have shown ...
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SelfRealization | 57 |
Others | 90 |
Everyday Life | 115 |
Nature | 132 |
Literature | 147 |
Works Cited | 167 |
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according achieve action affected American Aristotle attempts awareness beauty become called character claims Coleridge command concept concern conscience considered culture defined discussion duty early Emerson essay ethics evil existence experience expression fact feeling first freedom friendship give Goethe Greek happiness harmony Hegel highest human ideal ideas imagination important individual insists integrity intellectual interpreted involves Kant Kant’s Kantian knowledge language limited literature live matter means mind moral law moral sentiment nature never object obligation obvious one’s perception perfect person philosophy Plato position possible practical practical reason present principle pure questions rational reality realization reason recognized reference regarded relation respect result says sense society Socrates soul spirit statement striving symbol term theoretical theory things thinking thought true truth ultimate understanding Unitarian universal virtue
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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...