 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.* That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have...  Works - Page 99by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | R. C. De Prospo - 1985 - 304 pages
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 | Greg Johnson - 1985 - 264 pages
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 | Harold Bloom - 1985 - 216 pages
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 | Richard H. Brodhead - 1986 - 196 pages
...hardens into solipsism in the later essay, and the culprit is Emerson's own self-consciousness: It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | Lou Ann Lange - 1986 - 176 pages
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 | Richard Poirier - 1987 - 264 pages
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 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...Bewußtseinsträgers verlaufenden Weltprozeß - als eine dem Sündenfall korrespondierende Dekadenz: It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man.21 Diese Interpretation des Sündenfallmythos - "the myth of reflection" - stuft Barbara Packer... | |
 | David Lodge - 1988 - 496 pages
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 | Michel Foucault - 1988 - 182 pages
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