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Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman sh
Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman sh
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问题
Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs. Common to all these writers is their humanistic perspective. Its basic premises are that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that in them alone is the clue to nature, history, and ultimately the cosmos itself. Without denying outright the existence either of a deity or of brute matter, this perspective nevertheless rejects them as exclusive principles of interpretation and prefers to explain humans and the world in terms of humanity itself. This preference is expressed most clearly in the Transcendentalist principle that the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self; therefore, all knowledge begins with self-knowledge. This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or American, but upon the human as universal, freed from the accidents of time, space, birth, and talent. Thus, for Emerson, the "American Scholar" turns out to be simply" Man thinking"; while, for Whitman, the "Song of Myself" merges imperceptible into a song of all the "children of Adam, "where" every atom belonging to ale as good belongs to you." Also common to all five writers is the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon selfrealization, which, in turn, depends upon the harmonious reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: first, the self- asserting impulse of the individual to withdraw, to remain unique and separate, and to be responsible only to himself or herself, and second, the self-transcending impulse of the individual to embrace the whole world in the experience of a single moment and to know and become one with that world. These conflicting impulses can be seen in the democratic ethic. Democracy advocates individualism, the preservation of the individual’s freedom and self-expressi0n. But the democratic self is torn between the duty to self, which is implied by the concept of liberty, and the duty to society, Which is implied by the concepts of equality and fraternity.
A third assumption common to the five writers is that intuition and imagination offer a surer road to truth than does abstract logic or scientific method. It is illustrated by their emphasis upon introspection -- their belief that the clue to external nature is to be found in the inner world of individual psychology -- and by their interpretation of experience as, in essence, symbolic. Both these stresses presume an organic relationship between the self and the cosmos of which only intuition and imagination can properly take account. These writers’ faith in the imagination and in themselves as practitioners or imagination led them to conceive of the writer as a seer and enabled them to achieve supreme confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights.
The author’s discussion of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman is primarily concerned with explaining ______.
选项
A、some of their beliefs concerning the world and the place that humanity occupies in the universal order
B、some of their beliefs concerning the relationship between humanism and democracy
C、the way some of their beliefs are shaped by differences in temperament and literary outlook
D、the effects of some of their beliefs on their writings
答案
A
解析
作者讨论的五人的共同之处主要在于他们对于个人与宇宙之间的关系问题的看法。选项B只提及五人共同点中的一点,并没有涉及其他的观点,有失全面;选项C中的问题文章并未论及;选项D亦未论及。
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