 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion...god paints the image in the firmament of the soul? (p. 29)48 Emerson weist eine vordergründige Kritik an der "Ideal Theory" zurück, die durch ihre burlesken... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion...god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?" Conceding that phenomena are real enough whether they objectively exist or exist only in the mind,... | |
 | John Conron - 2010 - 484 pages
...correspond with outlying objects, 323 324 what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in the heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul. . . . Whether nature enjoys a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind,... | |
 | Marta Dvořák - 2001 - 288 pages
...utter "impotence to test the authenticity" of the report of his senses, it makes little difference "whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul" (Nature 59-60), for in both cases it is equally useful and venerable. Unlike the characters in The... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with the outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion...paints the image in the firmament of the soul? The relation of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same, what is the difference, whether land... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion...some god paints the image in the firmament of the 8oul ? " We need not follow the thought through the argument from illusions, like that when we look... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...in the "Idealism" chapter of Nature, "What difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in the heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?" Emerson may be fusing Kant's twin objects of "ever increasing admiration and awe, the starry heavens... | |
 | Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 pages
..."noble doubt" as to "whether nature outwardly exists." Unable to choose between two possibilities— whether "Orion is up there in heaven" or "some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul"— Emerson concludes a choice is not necessary: "Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without,... | |
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