He argued that we (humans) are not constituted so that we can know all, but are born with enough basic knowledge to enable us to avoid pain and seek pleasure. ... Locke felt that the senses, as receptors, first supply us with particular ideas or images from a stimulus, which the mind by degrees becomes familiar with, remembers, and names. ... A typical moral principle that may be considered by many, including Descartes, as an innate moral, is the belief in God or some other symbol of religion. ... It is only a game of symbol, nothing about existence. ... Since this view seriously conflicted ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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Often, Freud had to analyze people wearing his overcoat because he could not afford to heat the consulting room. ... Displacement is when the meaning of one image or symbol gets pushed onto something associated with it, which then displaces the original image. ... The oral stage is associated with incorporation, with taking in things, with knowing no boundaries between self and others and between the inside and the outside. The anal stage is associated with expelling things, with learning boundaries between inside and outside. ... Now no one has a problem with these two layers of mind. ...

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