 | Philip Cafaro - Philosophy - 2006 - 289 pages
...our ideals. And we may, through experience, come to better understand the full extent of human life: "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...priest and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier."4 In the current state of society, we parcel these functions out to different individuals.... | |
 | Len Gougeon - Literary Criticism - 2012 - 280 pages
...there is One Man,—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole...farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all." It became an article of absolute faith to Emerson "that man is one." 17 It is this essential concept... | |
 | George Hovis - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 348 pages
...left the disassociated men longing for the original wholeness. In an ideal state, Emerson finds that "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier."76 The yeoman farmer, out of necessity a generalist, comes as close to fulfilling Emerson's... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - Political Science - 2008 - 228 pages
...economic complexity forces individuals to become divisible entities. Emerson demands reintegration: "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all" (p. 12). Of three "influences" or sources of knowledge for the reborn scholar and fully formed individual... | |
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The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor,... 
