American Transcendentalism

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American Transcendentalism: 

American Transcendentalism “ It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, always do what you are afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism: 

Transcendentalism

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A literary movement in the 1830’s that established a clear “American voice”.

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Emerson first expressed his philosophy in his essay “Nature ”.

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A belief in a higher reality than that achieved by human reasoning .

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Suggests that every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth through intuition.

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Unlike Puritans, they saw humans and nature as possessing an innate goodness . “In the faces of men and women, I see God” -Walt Whitman

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Opposed strict ritualism and dogma of established religion.

Transcendentalism The tenets: 

Transcendentalism The tenets

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Believed in living close to nature/importance of nature. Nature is the source of truth and inspiration.

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Taught the dignity of manual labor

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Advocated confidence self-trust

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Valued free thought

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non-conformity

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individuality

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simplicity Advocated

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self-reliance

“Self-reliance” -Emerson: 

“Self-reliance” -Emerson “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation in suicide…”

“Self-reliance” -Emerson: 

“Self-reliance” -Emerson “Trust thyself…”

“Self-reliance” -Emerson: 

“Self-reliance” -Emerson “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think…”

“Still we live meanly like ants.” “Our life is frittered away by detail.” “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?” “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand.” : 

“Still we live meanly like ants.” “Our life is frittered away by detail.” “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?” “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand.”

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

“Civil Disobedience”: 

“Civil Disobedience” Thoreau’s essay urging passive, non-violent resistance to governmental policies to which an individual is morally opposed. Influenced