THE CONCEPT OF “NATURE” IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALIST RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Journal Title: Вісник Львівського університету - Year 2018, Vol 18, Issue
Abstract
The main views of the famous American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, a representative of American transcendentalism of the XIX century, on the problem of “Nature” are studied in the article. The natural philosophy of the thinker proclaims the concept of “Nature” central and output for ontology, as well as for epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, politics, etc. The metaphorical, figurative speech of the philosopher is structured by the categorical apparatus of European transcendentalism, ancient philosophy and literature, American Puritan philosophy. Using the dialectics of the subject and object of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Ralph Waldo Emerson seeks to demonstrate the dialectic of “Nature”, which is more than the totality of its elements. These elements are both matter and spirit. The term “Nature” is used by the philosopher as a multi-valued word; analyzes of the main definitions of the term is in the article.
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Yaroslav Sobolievskyi
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