THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt,... Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Seite 94von Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alice O. Howell - 1993 - 302 Seiten
...others) There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet into all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson We sit around in a circle... | |
| Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 Seiten
...is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato Here begins a pattern of often dramatic, but temporary, discrepancy between Emerson's theory and his... | |
| Roy Rosenzweig, David Paul Thelen - 1998 - 308 Seiten
...Emerson wrote that "Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...any time has befallen any man, he can understand." By recovering things from the past or by looking at experience differently we can see how to think... | |
| Melvin J. Lasky - 506 Seiten
...to communicate them by words if any other medium is available." CS Lewis, "Studies in Words" (I960) "He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...any time has befallen any man, he can understand.... "There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.. ..We, as we read, must... | |
| David Fideler - 2000 - 482 Seiten
...this intellectual timidity, Emerson holds that There is one mmd common to all mdividual men. . . . What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...at any time has befallen any man, he can understand Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.-" For Emerson, in the work of the... | |
| Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 Seiten
...common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. . . . What Plato thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may...any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of... | |
| David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 Seiten
...comprehensible to each new reader: "Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. . . . What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...any time has befallen any man, he can understand" (E, 237). In this denial of historical relativism we have a formal equivalent, albeit in cruder terms,... | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas, Robert Pasnau - 2002 - 460 Seiten
...is one mind common to all individual men. Even man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. In the medieval era, it was common to suppose that... | |
| Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 Seiten
...is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson soon as this sentiment of... | |
| Mary Chayko - 2002 - 256 Seiten
...learning about people and events of the past, an individual can come to reexperience history, so that [w]hat Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, we can understand. . . . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same... | |
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