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Emerson's Transparent Eyeball, Lois M. Eveleth
Emerson's Transparent Eyeball, Lois M. Eveleth
Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers
In his early essay "Nature" Emerson lays the foundation of the Transcendentalist or Romantic movement in America. Key is his "transparent eyeball" passage, where "eye" refers to the human role in Nature, i.e. creatively perceiving or knowing Nature. Man is Nature knowing itself.
Toleration, Offense, And Logic, Lois Eveleth
Toleration, Offense, And Logic, Lois Eveleth
Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers
Because the traditional liberal understanding of toleration has been formalistic rather than substantive, the question of where to draw the line between "tolerable" and "intolerable" remains. One approach, borrowing the concept of profound offense from legal philosophy, is to locate the line of separation between "tolerable" and "intolerable" at the notion of profound offense.