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Transcendentalism
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Proposes a belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience or in a higher kind of knowledge than that achieved by human reason.
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Transcendentalism was strongly influenced by Deism, which is what?
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Opposed to Calvinism. A certain kind of religious knowledge is either inherent in each person or accessible through the exercise of reason. Transcendentalism also involved a rejection of the strict Puritan religious attitudes that were the heritage of New England, where the movement orginated.
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Unlike Puritans, transcendalists saw humans and nature as what?
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Possessing and innate goodness. Opposed strict ritualism and dogmatic theology of all established religious institutions.
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What aspects of Romanticism influenced the Transcendalists?
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Celebration of individualism, and the extollingo of the beauties of nature and haumankind.
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Writers at this time expressed?
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Semi religious feelings towarde nature and saw a connection between universe and soul. Divinity permeated all objects and the purpose of life was the Oversoul
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What is the Oversoul?
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Convergence of the individual, God, and nature
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What was regarded, rather than reason, as the highest human faculty?
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Intuition. Focus on individual. Rejected materialism and looked towards simplicity and opposed widespread conformity.
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Transcendental Club
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Formed in Boston in 1836 with essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson and feminist social reformer Margaret Fuller, educartor Bronson Alcott, and author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
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This club published what magazine?
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The Dial. Some of the club's members also participated in an experimental communal living at Brook Farm in Massachussets during the 1840's.
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What are major Transcendentalism works?
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Emmerson's essay "Nature"
(1936), "Self-Reliance" (1841), Thoreau's "Walden, or life in the woods" (1854), and "Civil Disobedience" an essay by Thoreau urged passive and non-violent resistance to government policies offensible on moral standards. |
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Who were Anti-transcendentalists?
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Nathanial Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Both explore darker side of human nature and consider life in a combination of good and evil while transcendentalists believed humanity was positive and God-like.
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SUMMARY: Transcendental beliefs?
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Intuition, not reason
Rejection of materialism Simplicity=greatness NAture is source ot truth and inspiration Nonconformity, individuality, and self reliance. |
