Mind cannot exist without matter; matter cannot exist without mind. This is what I have come to see as perhaps the most essential theme that runs through American philosophy. In the modern western world it is the French genius Rene Descartes that is cited as having definitively cleaved mind from matter res cogitans and res [...]
All posts tagged Transcendentalism
The Integral Assumption of American Philosophy
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 20, 2011
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2011/01/20/the-integral-assumption-of-american-philosophy/
The Holistic Vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sorry that I missed a post this week due to travel, but I am excited to share more from Ralph Waldo Emerson. As we understand more how Emerson’s thought developed we see the foundations of our own mind. Emerson was arguably the most significant figure of the American Romanticism that blossomed in America in [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 2, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/06/02/the-holistic-vision-of-ralph-waldo%c2%a0emerson/
Test Drive a Worldview
To respond to Andy, I knew that I was getting myself into some trouble by oversimplifying and over-generalizing philosophy and breaking it down into metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. I was lumping things, like logic into epistemology and aesthetics into ethics (which I probably would have been better off calling values theory.) I also regret using the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on September 16, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/09/16/test-drive-a-worldview/
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Conception of Nature
The Pragmatic definition of truth may have deep roots in American thought, but to uncover the metaphysical conception that is the ground under Pragmatism’s feet we should look one generation earlier into the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson’s Transcendentalism, which recognizes intuition and not logic as the ultimate source of wisdom, stands in opposition [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 15, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/15/ralph-waldo-emerson%e2%80%99s-conception-of-nature/
