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Transparent eyeball. The transparent eyeball is a philosophical metaphor originated by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his essay Nature, the metaphor stands for a view of life that is absorbent rather than reflective, and therefore takes in all that nature has to offer without bias or contradiction.
Illustration of Emerson's transparent eyeball metaphor in "Nature" by Christopher Pearse Cranch, ca. 1836-1838. Emerson uses spirituality as a major theme in the essay. Emerson believed in re-imagining the divine as something large and visible, which he referred to as nature; such an idea is known as transcendentalism, in which one perceives a new God and a new body, and becomes one with his ...
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
Transcendental humanism is a cross-section of both humanist and transcendental philosophies. [4] Humanism is a philosophy founded in a rationalist outlook that emphasises human agency as opposed to that of the divine. [6] It recognises the centrality of moral values in human nature and experience. Thus, humans are believed to have the freedom ...
In terms of Lane's influences and relations to the artistic tradition of Luminism, Barbara Novak, in her book "American Painting in the Nineteenth Century", relates Lane's later works to Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalism (which she relates directly to the emergence of Luminism), claiming that "[Lane] was the most 'transparent eyeball", [5 ...
Circles" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay consists of a philosophical view of the vast array of circles one may find throughout nature . In the opening line of the essay Emerson states "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is ...
A spring-loaded mousetrap as patented and advertised several years after the phrase became popular. " Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door " is a metaphor about the power of innovation. It originated, in a somewhat different form, with Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1][2] The epigram as known today, which specifies ...
Fibrous tunic of eyeball. Horizontal section of the eyeball. (Cornea labeled at top, sclera labeled at center right.) The sclera and cornea form the fibrous tunic of the bulb of the eye; the sclera is opaque, and constitutes the posterior five-sixths of the tunic; the cornea is transparent, and forms the anterior sixth.