... was its name (Gen. 2:19). Norse mythology preserves a similar story of divine participation in the creation of language, and in India the god Indra is said to have invented articulate speech. In the much more sophisticated debate on the nature and origin of language given in Plato's ... Thebes and introduced writing into Greece. The Arabs had a traditional account of their script, together with the language itself, being given to Adam by God. The later biblical tradition of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9) exemplifies three aspects of early thought about language: (1) divine interest in ...

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... thought is revealed early in the Timaeus. In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. Because his philosophy was much easier to "Christianize," it seems reasonable to think that Platonism was more warmly ... have given the name time.(31)" Furthermore, Plato continues to appoint this higher being as the creator of humans. With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man."...

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... vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes. As the bird alights on the bough,--then plunges into the air again,--so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form. All thinking is analogizing, and 'tis the use of life to learn metonomy [sic]. The ... WA ("Walking"), Emerson offers his most compressed version of this empirical correspondence of matter and mind: "Man [is] not planetary but a grasshopper. Each no god, but a trait or knack; learning metonomy is life. Provocation. Each is potentially great." (38) If life for Emerson is a process of nature's writing ... movemen...

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... sensical, became the means for a conscious union of the individual psyche (known in Sanskrit as Atman) with the world psyche also known as the Oversoul, like force, prime mover and God (known in Sanskrit as Brahma). Other basic premises were: - an individual is the spiritual center of the universe, and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history ... and ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the struc...

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