Culture
Culture - meaning Summary
Moral Imagination Shaping Culture
Emerson argues that genuine culture cannot be produced by rules or tutors but emerges from an inner, semi-divine sensibility. This ideal person is receptive to music, landscape, and human feeling, and rooted in a stable center that fuses past and future. Culture, for Emerson, is an inward moral and imaginative development that absorbs impressions and creatively recasts the world’s unfolding fate rather than mere external instruction.
Read Complete AnalysesCan rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye: But, to his native centre fast, Shall into Future fuse the Past, And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast.
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