Reviews for Nature
Review - Nature
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Reviewed by Roger on 1998-09-10 12:00:00
Natureby Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Philosophy" |
| Pages: | 49 |
| Year of Publication: | 1836 |
| Date Read: | 12/02/1994 |
| Notes: | Emerson had an ambivalent viewpoint towards nature. He had a powerful and passionate delight in real concrete natural things: woods and sunsets and warm days and melons. Emotionally and practically, his position appears to be one of pantheistic nature-worship. But he was also a Platonist: he believed that the outward world was only appearance or dream, and had no real substance. It was the manifestation of the spiritual world, the solidified thoughts of God. |
| My Rating: | 3 |