 In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.  Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Página 84de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 461 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 páginas
...strut about so many walking monsters, — a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. In this distribution of functions the scholar is the...victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker. {Complete Works 1:82-84) Although Edward Waldo Emerson glossed the source of this passage as Aristophanes'... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1995 - 200 páginas
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 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 páginas
...condition of society, the scholar was "Man Thinking," but in society's degenerate state the scholar became "a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." The task, then, was to regenerate scholarly work as a fully human social activity. This began, Emerson... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1997 - 244 páginas
...the future. For Emerson, the scholar had to become the seer for the rest of society, serving as its "delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man...still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." In the Transcendentalist view, a child was less likely to be such a parrot, and as Twain later showed,... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 páginas
...shall not perish from the earth' (1863). people's thoughts: cf. Emerson in 'The American Scholar': 'In the degenerate state, when the victim of society,...or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking' (CWRWE 1 53). not conform: Emerson, in SR: 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist' (29 and passim).... | |
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