 The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 34by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
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...office within a system whereby 'the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind' exhibiting how the 'laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass' or the 'axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics'.63 Emerson's willingness to employ metaphors... | |
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...Naturdinge werden nicht vom Menschen mit Bedeutung aufgeladen, sie sind in sich bedeutsam: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because...whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." (p. 21) Hier führt Emerson die für sein Denken als ganzes konstitutive These von der Entsprechung... | |
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