Emerson's EthicsUniversity of Missouri Press, 1999 - 182 páginas |
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... moral" (CW 1:25). In view of the preponderance of moral concerns in ... law; that fact is one reason why his thought is interesting.5 A related ... moral thought. As Joel Porte puts it, Emersonnowhere showsgreateraffinity tothe [British] ...
... moral" (CW 1:25). In view of the preponderance of moral concerns in ... law; that fact is one reason why his thought is interesting.5 A related ... moral thought. As Joel Porte puts it, Emersonnowhere showsgreateraffinity tothe [British] ...
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... moral sense," or "moral sentiment," or "Moral Law.”Andnothing more amazingly exhibits what small effect, at heart, a lifetime of reading his European contemporaries had on his ideas. In this sense at least, one might say that Emerson ...
... moral sense," or "moral sentiment," or "Moral Law.”Andnothing more amazingly exhibits what small effect, at heart, a lifetime of reading his European contemporaries had on his ideas. In this sense at least, one might say that Emerson ...
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... Law, among his most rhetorically accomplished works.7 Robinson's book, in a word, is a masterful study of how Emerson's ethical ... moral absolutes." He also says, however, that his "purpose . . . is to detect a pattern: the concordance of ...
... Law, among his most rhetorically accomplished works.7 Robinson's book, in a word, is a masterful study of how Emerson's ethical ... moral absolutes." He also says, however, that his "purpose . . . is to detect a pattern: the concordance of ...
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... moral virtue consisted in hitting the mean between two extreme courses of action, while Plato's Diotima insisted ... law-abidingness as the only defense against individual inclination and social and political anarchy is here misinterpreted by ...
... moral virtue consisted in hitting the mean between two extreme courses of action, while Plato's Diotima insisted ... law-abidingness as the only defense against individual inclination and social and political anarchy is here misinterpreted by ...
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... Law of Nature," a phrase coined by Plato (kata nomon ge ton t ̄es phuse ̄os) but as a concept given real moral significance by Aristotle andespeciallybythe Stoics, forwhomliving in accordancewithnature became the paramount ethical ...
... Law of Nature," a phrase coined by Plato (kata nomon ge ton t ̄es phuse ̄os) but as a concept given real moral significance by Aristotle andespeciallybythe Stoics, forwhomliving in accordancewithnature became the paramount ethical ...
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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...