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... first book , that " All things are moral " ( CW 1:25 ) . In view of the preponderance of moral concerns in Emerson's writings , it is understandable that almost every extensive study of his thought has referred to or dealt with aspects ...
... first book , that " All things are moral " ( CW 1:25 ) . In view of the preponderance of moral concerns in Emerson's writings , it is understandable that almost every extensive study of his thought has referred to or dealt with aspects ...
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... first thinker to have rooted " moral science " in " the relations which bind man to the universe about him " ( EP 98-99 , 101 ) . The equation of righteousness and justice with cosmic order and physical laws was already suggested by ...
... first thinker to have rooted " moral science " in " the relations which bind man to the universe about him " ( EP 98-99 , 101 ) . The equation of righteousness and justice with cosmic order and physical laws was already suggested by ...
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... first intellect " qualified to institute and methodize the science of morality " and thus to give it a distinct place " in the circle of human knowledge " ( EP 98 , 104 ) . Emerson regards Socrates , however , not just as a great ...
... first intellect " qualified to institute and methodize the science of morality " and thus to give it a distinct place " in the circle of human knowledge " ( EP 98 , 104 ) . Emerson regards Socrates , however , not just as a great ...
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... first seem surprising, but he obviously thought of Bacon in a general sense as one of the great emancipators of the human mind—the Bacon who promised in the preface of his Instauratio Magnathat his work would be "infiniti erroris finis ...
... first seem surprising, but he obviously thought of Bacon in a general sense as one of the great emancipators of the human mind—the Bacon who promised in the preface of his Instauratio Magnathat his work would be "infiniti erroris finis ...
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... first used by Shaftesbury and given con- ceptual depth by Hutcheson . It was thus first the property , so to speak , of the ethical sentimentalists . Hutcheson emphatically associates the moral sense with the mind's nonrational ...
... first used by Shaftesbury and given con- ceptual depth by Hutcheson . It was thus first the property , so to speak , of the ethical sentimentalists . Hutcheson emphatically associates the moral sense with the mind's nonrational ...
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SelfRealization | 57 |
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Everyday Life | 115 |
Nature | 132 |
Literature | 147 |
Works Cited | 167 |
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