"Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, Nature. In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;- in its common and in its philosophical import.[...] Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture."So Nature and Art are two new terms we could use.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Ralph Waldo Emerson's take on Nature
I was reading for my other class when I came across an interesting definition for what is nature and decided it would be a useful thing for our discussions. It is from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, Addresses, and Lectures
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Me gustó muchisimo esta cita que dejaste de Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fue interesante que puso el universo en dos categorias, el alma y la naturaleza. Y que nuestros cuerpos y los hombres son parte de esta naturaleza. Personalmente no pensaría que mi cuerpo es parte de la naturaleza, no porque mi cuerpo parece antinatural sino pienso yo mayormente que la naturaleza es todo lo que no ha sido cambiado por el hombre. Me acuerdo que hemos tenido este discusión en nuestra clase. Entonces es muy interesante esta cita y me hace pensar fuera de mis pensamientos normales de los que es la naturaleza
Emerson...el Romántico por excelencia.
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