 | Raymond Ayoub - 2004 - 300 pages
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 | Bruce V. Foltz, Robert Frodeman - 2004 - 368 pages
...des Geistes, 245. PART III. NATURE AND NATURAL SCIENCE Philosophy in the Field Robert Frodeman 'I'he preamble of thought, the transition through which...from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. —Ralph Waldo Emerson In addition to the scholar's study, philosophy also makes its home in the field.... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...Man Thinking "grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power," there can be no "true scholar" without "the heroic mind." The "preamble...action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived." Grounding himself on Coleridge's Latin axiom, according to which knowledge is contingent on vital being,... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 216 pages
...or action, and to the shaping powers of the human mind. In "The American Scholar," Emerson states: "The preamble of thought, the transition through which...action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived." 25 Action, that is to say, is not just the result or the test of thought, but essential to its very... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2006 - 289 pages
...class may forget or forgo the need for action. But, Emerson reminds us, real knowledge depends upon it: "The preamble of thought, the transition through which...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted,... | |
 | George W. Bonham - 262 pages
...but it is essential. Without it he is not yet man. Without it thought can never ripen into truth.... Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind." • The antiwar movement, which bred, perhaps inadvertently, a skepticism about the warrior ethos and its relation... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...threshold of his public ministry when he told the young scholars at Harvard, "Inaction is cowardice . . . there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. The...action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived." 163 It is not enough, as he told an audience of young Transcendental idealists four years later, to... | |
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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. 
