Emerson's essay on intellect Is a brilliant example of the distinction Made between objective conceptions Of truth and artistic ones, after deconstructing the objective conceptions of his day he writes: "Intellect lies behind genius, which is constructive. Intellect is the simple power anterior to all action or construction." He begins to associate intellect As the fruit of art and the spontaneous ... "If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent. We want, in every man, a long logic; we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; "
Intellect is the unfolding of intuition "We are all wise. The difference persons is not in wisdom but in art. " The principle of art lies in community And communication .. " To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is revelation, always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder. It is the advent of truth into the world, a form of thought now, for the first time, bursting into the universe, a child of the old eternal soul, a piece of genuine and immeasurable greatness. It seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed, and to dictate to the unborn. It affects every thought of man, and goes to fashion every institution. But to make it available, it needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men." If Marsha were to post the entire essay. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2013, at 3:37 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect > > > "Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best > deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous > glance shall bring you, whilst you rise from your bed, or walk abroad in the > morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night. Our > thinking is a pious reception. Our truth of thought is therefore vitiated as > much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence. > We do not determine what we will think. We only open our senses, clear away, > as we can, all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see. We > have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of ideas. They > catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we > take no thought for the morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make > them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture, bethink us where we have > been, what we have seen, and repeat, as truly as we can, what we have beheld. > As far as we can recall these ecstasies, we carry away in the ineffaceable > memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called > Truth. But the moment we cease to report, and attempt to correct and > contrive, it is not truth." > > > > http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_36Y4mG_CI > > > > > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
