This was the beginning of what is known as a paradigm shift. "A paradigm shift is a radical change in personal beliefs, complex systems, or organizations, replacing the former way of thinking or organizing with a radically different way of thinking or organizing. A scientific revolution occurs, according to Thomas Kuhn , when scientists encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the universally accepted paradigm which "normal" scientific progress had been made."(Wikipedia Encyclopedia) A paradigm is an era of advancement that answers questions and solves problems. ... You must think o...

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Johnson locates a more ecologically minded Thoreau only when the naturalist can move beyond Emersonian metaphor in his later work, and therefore initiate (along with Susan Fennimore Cooper) an empirical "counteraesthetics" to the dominant paradigm in American environmental aesthetics codified in Emerson's line from his 1836 Nature: "The world is emblematic. ... In doing so, critics continue to mistake the fact that Emerson offers in his later work and its focus on metonymy something of a "counteraesthetics" to his own earlier conception of metaphorical nature. (11) In this later work that...

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In comparison with this the attention of early Christian philosophers and theologians shifts from the visible creation to its invisible Creator. ... This shift in attention coincides with the Christian demand to be a free human being, who has the obligation to honour and to love the Creator, not the creation. ...

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