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  2. Nature (essay) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Nature (Tobler essay) - Wikipedia

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    The first issue of Nature, in which the essay is incorrectly attributed to Goethe "Nature" (German: Die Natur) is an essay by Georg Christoph Tobler which is often incorrectly attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in 1783 in the Tiefurt Journal. [1] Tobler wrote the essay after repeated conversations with Goethe. [1]

  4. Transparent eyeball - Wikipedia

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    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. Emerson intends that the individual become one with nature, and the manner of the transparent eyeball is an approach to achieving it.

  5. Nature - Wikipedia

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    Beauty in nature has historically been a prevalent theme in art and books, filling large sections of libraries and bookstores. That nature has been depicted and celebrated by so much art, photography, poetry, and other literature shows the strength with which many people associate nature and beauty.

  6. Argument from beauty - Wikipedia

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    The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence of God, that roughly states that the evident beauty in nature, art and music and even in more abstract areas like the elegance of the laws of physics or the elegant laws of mathematics is evidence of a creator deity who has arranged these ...

  7. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    Nature is a living system which includes animals, plants, and Eco-systems. In contrast, an art object has no regeneration, evolutionary history, or metabolism. [ 6 ] An individual may be in the forest and perceive it as beautiful because of the plethora of colors such as red, green, and yellow.

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  9. The Sense of Beauty - Wikipedia

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    The first part of The Sense of Beauty is devoted to the development of a definition of beauty. Santayana rejects the previous notion of beauty as ″the symbol of divine perfection″ and instead builds his theory of beauty on a re-definition of aesthetics being concerned with ″the perception of values″ (§1).