Ron, What relationship might 'intellect' have to intellectual static patterns of value of which the Intellectual Level is composed?
Marsha > On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> . >> 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 in >> 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." >> >> . >> >> 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 behe l > d. >>> 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 > 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
