Emerson and Self-CultureIndiana University Press, 2008年3月10日 - 248 頁 How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to others? John T. Lysaker suggests that those who take this question seriously need to reexamine the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In philosophical reflections on topics such as genius, divinity, friendship, and reform, Lysaker explores "self-culture" or the attempt to remain true to one's deepest commitments. He argues that being true to ourselves requires recognition of our thoroughly dependent and relational nature. Lysaker guides readers from simple self-absorption toward a more fulfilling and responsive engagement with the world. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 61 筆
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... seems that despite the appar- ent exoticism of self-culture, these are steps that any reflective person takes. Who do I find myself to be in this undertaking, and is this some- one I wish to continue being? If so, how can I help bring ...
... seems that despite the appar- ent exoticism of self-culture, these are steps that any reflective person takes. Who do I find myself to be in this undertaking, and is this some- one I wish to continue being? If so, how can I help bring ...
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... with others allows us to return more thoroughly to ourselves , then again , a rich dialogue with another , particularly one to whom self - culture is so dear , seems a boon , not a hindrance . [ 6 ] EMERSON AND SELF - CULTURE.
... with others allows us to return more thoroughly to ourselves , then again , a rich dialogue with another , particularly one to whom self - culture is so dear , seems a boon , not a hindrance . [ 6 ] EMERSON AND SELF - CULTURE.
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John T. Lysaker. dear , seems a boon , not a hindrance . Not that I have argued for these po- sitions . That will have to wait for chapters 2 and 6. But I alert you to them now in order to underscore that my dialogue with Emerson is as ...
John T. Lysaker. dear , seems a boon , not a hindrance . Not that I have argued for these po- sitions . That will have to wait for chapters 2 and 6. But I alert you to them now in order to underscore that my dialogue with Emerson is as ...
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... seems to valorize self - legislation . Since Emerson resists both of these commitments , I find the notion of individualism unwieldy in the context of his work . Third , in the history of metaphysics , “ individual ” denotes a ...
... seems to valorize self - legislation . Since Emerson resists both of these commitments , I find the notion of individualism unwieldy in the context of his work . Third , in the history of metaphysics , “ individual ” denotes a ...
第 9 頁
... seem to ensure that one's forays will be more than a series of fallible steps along paths opening within hermeneutic circles. But one cannot elude such circles, and thus reading is always a matter of double reading, of beginning by ...
... seem to ensure that one's forays will be more than a series of fallible steps along paths opening within hermeneutic circles. But one cannot elude such circles, and thus reading is always a matter of double reading, of beginning by ...
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1 | |
The Genius of Nature | 26 |
Reflecting Eloquence | 52 |
Divining Becoming | 81 |
On the Edges of Our Souls | 119 |
Commended Strangers Beautiful Enemies | 141 |
Tending to Reform | 168 |
Epilogue | 195 |
Notes | 199 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 219 |
back cover | 229 |
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第 46 頁 - ... of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
第 60 頁 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
第 98 頁 - Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
第 97 頁 - One key, one solution to the mysteries of human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists; the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature...
第 29 頁 - He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature,
第 52 頁 - Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.
第 62 頁 - I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
第 100 頁 - The German and Irish millions, like the Negro, have a great deal of guano in their destiny. They are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America, to ditch and to drudge, to make corn cheap and then to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
第 71 頁 - ... the love of little maids and berries, and many another fact that once filled the whole sky are gone already; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world must also soar and sing. Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.