... we think back to the "transparent eyeball" of Nature; referring to the pickerel of Walden as "small Waldens in the animal kingdom," Thoreau invokes metonymy, the phrase compressing the pickerel's context in the pond's "scale of being," thus signaling linguistically its ecology of relation through biological compression. (14) In Thoreau's Morning Work (1990), H. Daniel Peck has Jakobson's definition of metonymy in mind when he characterizes Thoreau's relational ... imaginative middle ground Faraday offers him, an understanding that the world, as force, continuously moves between and beyo...

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... by an ancient Athenian court. As a brilliant philosopher hundreds of years ahead of his civilization who was seeking to define the nature of ethics by asking seemingly awkward questions, Socrates' quest exposed the ignorance of those who believed themselves to be wise, with one of the most documented incidences being his debate with Euthyphro concerning the origins of piety. In Plato's "Euthyphro" (translated by F.J. Church), ... use, Socrates, and Euthyphro would not be superior to the majority of men, if I did not have accurate knowledge of all such things" (8). One of the main themes...

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... , and opposed formal Christianity's emphasis on ritual. Emerson's next two books, Essays (1841 and 1844), contain much of his most enduring prose. In "Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," and "The Over-Soul," he stated his faith in the moral orderliness of the universe and the divine force governing it. In "Experience," perhaps his best essay, Emerson allowed room for skepticism and showed how doubts are ... who is remembered for his attacks on the social institutions he considered immoral and for his faith in the religious significance of nature. The essay "Civil Disobedience" is his most f...

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