The cosmotheandric experience in Emerson's essays

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to install cosmotheandrism which marks its own tenement upon the vibrant literary works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, named The Nature, Transcendentalist and Over-soul respectively. Applying the philosophical idea of cosmotheandrism by Raimon Panikkar, this thesis experimentally investigates cosmotheandric effect on those three metaphysical essays which is to be experienced by the readers. The ideology of cosmotheandrism has been neglected to account mystical taste that every individual do possess. Cosmotheandrism juxtaposes three entities: God, Man and World (Nature) as of the ultimate reality. In this light, it is the synthesis of physical, psychical and spiritual dimensions in terms of depicting worldly phenomenon. It celebrates in undivided awareness of the totality that unfolds the horizon of consciousness. To validate the cosmotheandric approach, this thesis embraces three essays of Emerson as primary sources which essentially valorize the grandeur of human intuition. It is the only way to slap worldly experience and encounter final awareness.