ダイコトミーとアメリカ文化
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This chapter seeks to explain Emerson's idea of "Immanence" and "Transcendence" as a kind of dichotomy. "Immanence" here means the supreme being or God as permanently pervading the universe or nature while "Transcendence" describes Him as existing apart from the universe, namely, not subject to the limitations of the material world. This is an interesting theme, one worth exploring for its dualistic implications containing material and spiritual aspects. In the 18^<th> and 19^<th> centuries, along the north-eastern seaboard, the Enlightenment and Humanism were making inroads and soon secured a firm foothold among a group of intellectuals. This process soon destroyed the central tenets of the Calvinistic theology (depravity, sin, grace, incarnation of God in Christ and his redemption), thereby, preparing the groundwork for Deism, Unitarianism, and, finally, Transcendentalism to spring up. God needed to be dichotomized, as "Transcendent God" and "Immanent God," the latter of which Emerson strongly advocated. To see this "Immanent God," however, one must "go into solitude," into the woods where one can "return to reason and faith" so that "the currents of the Universal Being" may "circulate through" one. The Japanese Buddhist Dogen believes in the complete freedom from the concept of self, whereas Emerson embraces spiritual liberation of mind and the creativity and divinity existent in one. Nevertheless, both are concerned with the essence of supreme wisdom.
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- 2004-04-01