Emerson, philosophe transcendantaliste ou pragmatiste ?
Western philosophy owes the United States of America two original trends of thought: transcendentalism and pragmatism. The present debate on the influence of Emerson on Wittgenstein raises the problem of the relation between Mind (as a national entity) and any individual thinking subject of a nation...
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2002
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Western philosophy owes the United States of America two original trends of thought: transcendentalism and pragmatism. The present debate on the influence of Emerson on Wittgenstein raises the problem of the relation between Mind (as a national entity) and any individual thinking subject of a nation. Is the individual the replica of a Universal which thinks for each of us, as Wittgenstein argued? Or is “each man a state”, in other words “the root and seed of democracy”, as Emerson, and John Dewey after him, thought? |
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