Do Now #4: Do we really need to worry about saving the environment? Why or why not? Is nature our friend or our enemy?
Aim: How does “Fate” offer a counterargument/refutation of “Nature?”
Aim: How does “Fate” offer a counterargument/refutation of “Nature?” Claims of each essay: Nature: There is a great chain that binds all things together. Fate: All events are controlled by an indifferent force
Aim: How does “Fate” offer a counterargument/refutation of “Nature?”
Aim: How does “Fate” offer a counterargument/refutation of “Nature?” When you counter-argue, you consider a possible argument against your thesis or some aspect of your reasoning. Fate, in this way, offers a counterargument to the idealistic transcendentalist ideas of “Nature.”
Aim: How does “Fate” offer a counterargument/refutation of “Nature?” Which of the two arguments seem to be the most convincing? Why? What might have happened to Emerson to have caused such a shift in his writing and his thinking? Nature (1836) versus Fate (1852)