The Study Of Emerson's Natural View

Emerson is an influential thinker and literator in the history of American literature.He has achieved so much not only because of the high literary value of his works,but also the brilliant ideas contained in his works.Nature is the first published literary work in his literary career.The book was written under the social background of the spiritual emptiness caused by American capitalism at that time Emerson,as a man of insight,whom criticized and inherited the neo-platonism of the monotheism,the European romanticism literature and the Chinese classical Confucianism,and created a new natural view of thinking about nature from the spiritual level.Emerson believed that the meaning of nature could be explained by general and philosophical terms.Nature in the common sense is the tangible nature that has not been changed by human beings in terms of its essential characteristics.Natural objects,art,human flesh and other tangible entities are all included in this category.Nature in the philosophical sense refers to the intangible nature on the spiritual level,which believes that man and nature originate from the same spirit,and they have a common origin.Nature is the symbol of god's spirit and contains infinite spiritual power.People perch on the breast of god,draws nourishment from nature,and endows the mind with infinite power from god according to his own needs.In the harmony with nature,the mind of human acquires conventional intellectual,rational knowledge and moral truth to satisfy the appeal for truth,goodness and beauty.Emerson's natural view was introduced into China,which led to a wide discussion in the domestic academic circle.Scholars from each walk of life express their own opinions.The disputes about this can be divided into two teams: Firstly,Emerson's attitude of belittling or respecting nature;Secondly,Emerson's nature view contains the tendency of anthropocentrism or ecocentrism.The author dialectically analyzes that Emerson's nature view itself is contradictory,and his attitude to nature is belittling and respecting,so domestic scholars have different opinions on this.In addition,the author concludes that his natural thoughts have the tendency of weak anthropocentrism and weak ecological centrism.Emerson's idea of nature not only shocked the Chinese academic community,but also caused a huge wave in the American academic community.Emerson had a great influence onAmerican natural writers represented by Thoreau,Dickinson and Frost.His influence on Thoreau lay in the spirit of god and the view of art,while his influence on Dickinson and Frost was mainly manifested in the view of religion and symbolism.Emerson's natural view warned the American people the drawbacks brought by industrial civilization,to change the concept of the opposition between man and nature,and to view the relationship between them with a harmonious and unified vision.Through the research,his thought contains three aspects of ecological significance.First,the research awakened the ecological consciousness of American writers,mainly Thoreau,dickinson and frost,and transmitted the natural thoughts from the books americans came into daily contact with,thus changing people's ideas more effectively from the root of spiritual thoughts.Second,it provides a new perspective on the relationship between human and nature,breeds the ecological ethics of harmony between human and nature,elevates the status of nature,and enables people to respect and love nature.Third,it reflects the ecological beauty value of the organic whole.From the perspective of the life community,it sees the hidden connection between all things in nature and the overall beauty value of nature,and realizes the overall aesthetic thought of “the beauty of the original heaven and earth can reach the truth of all things”.In the increasingly serious ecological civilization today,Emerson's natural view inspires people to return to nature,get close to nature,and protect the environment for human survival and development in the harmony and unity between man and nature.