Emerson's Hidden Influence: What Can Spinoza Tell the Boy?

Emerson's Hidden Influence: What Can Spinoza Tell the Boy?

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Scholarship on Emerson to date has not considered Spinoza’s influence upon his thought. Indeed, from his lifetime until the twentieth century, Emerson’s friends and disciples engaged in a concerted cover-up because of Spinoza’s hated name. However, Emerson mentioned his respect and admiration of Spi...

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Main Author: Adler, Adam
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Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2007
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American
Philosophy
Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/2
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spelling ndltd-GEORGIA-oai-digitalarchive.gsu.edu-philosophy_hontheses-10012013-04-23T03:16:56Z Emerson's Hidden Influence: What Can Spinoza Tell the Boy? Adler, Adam Scholarship on Emerson to date has not considered Spinoza’s influence upon his thought. Indeed, from his lifetime until the twentieth century, Emerson’s friends and disciples engaged in a concerted cover-up because of Spinoza’s hated name. However, Emerson mentioned his respect and admiration of Spinoza in his journals, letters, lectures, and essays, and Emerson’s thought clearly shows an importation of ideas central to Spinoza’s system of metaphysics, ethics, and biblical hermeneutics. In this essay, I undertake a biographical and philosophical study in order to show the extent of Spinoza’s influence on Emerson and how this changes the traditional understanding of Emerson’s thought. 2007-06-15 text application/pdf http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/2 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=philosophy_hontheses Philosophy Honors Theses Digital Archive @ GSU Ralph Waldo Emerson American Philosophy
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Adler, Adam
Emerson's Hidden Influence: What Can Spinoza Tell the Boy?
description Scholarship on Emerson to date has not considered Spinoza’s influence upon his thought. Indeed, from his lifetime until the twentieth century, Emerson’s friends and disciples engaged in a concerted cover-up because of Spinoza’s hated name. However, Emerson mentioned his respect and admiration of Spinoza in his journals, letters, lectures, and essays, and Emerson’s thought clearly shows an importation of ideas central to Spinoza’s system of metaphysics, ethics, and biblical hermeneutics. In this essay, I undertake a biographical and philosophical study in order to show the extent of Spinoza’s influence on Emerson and how this changes the traditional understanding of Emerson’s thought.
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title Emerson's Hidden Influence: What Can Spinoza Tell the Boy?
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