logging in or signing up American Transcendentalism ammarmerhbi Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 97 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: December 02, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Intro to Transcendentalism Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript 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 EmersonTranscendentalism: TranscendentalismPowerPoint Presentation: A literary movement in the 1830’s that established a clear “American voice”.PowerPoint Presentation: Emerson first expressed his philosophy in his essay “Nature ”.PowerPoint Presentation: A belief in a higher reality than that achieved by human reasoning .PowerPoint Presentation: Suggests that every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth through intuition.PowerPoint Presentation: Unlike Puritans, they saw humans and nature as possessing an innate goodness . “In the faces of men and women, I see God” -Walt WhitmanPowerPoint Presentation: Opposed strict ritualism and dogma of established religion.Transcendentalism The tenets: Transcendentalism The tenetsPowerPoint Presentation: Believed in living close to nature/importance of nature. Nature is the source of truth and inspiration.PowerPoint Presentation: Taught the dignity of manual laborPowerPoint Presentation: Advocated confidence self-trustPowerPoint Presentation: Valued free thoughtPowerPoint Presentation: non-conformityPowerPoint Presentation: individualityPowerPoint Presentation: simplicity AdvocatedPowerPoint Presentation: 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.”PowerPoint Presentation: “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 You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
American Transcendentalism ammarmerhbi Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 97 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: December 02, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Intro to Transcendentalism Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript 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 EmersonTranscendentalism: TranscendentalismPowerPoint Presentation: A literary movement in the 1830’s that established a clear “American voice”.PowerPoint Presentation: Emerson first expressed his philosophy in his essay “Nature ”.PowerPoint Presentation: A belief in a higher reality than that achieved by human reasoning .PowerPoint Presentation: Suggests that every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth through intuition.PowerPoint Presentation: Unlike Puritans, they saw humans and nature as possessing an innate goodness . “In the faces of men and women, I see God” -Walt WhitmanPowerPoint Presentation: Opposed strict ritualism and dogma of established religion.Transcendentalism The tenets: Transcendentalism The tenetsPowerPoint Presentation: Believed in living close to nature/importance of nature. Nature is the source of truth and inspiration.PowerPoint Presentation: Taught the dignity of manual laborPowerPoint Presentation: Advocated confidence self-trustPowerPoint Presentation: Valued free thoughtPowerPoint Presentation: non-conformityPowerPoint Presentation: individualityPowerPoint Presentation: simplicity AdvocatedPowerPoint Presentation: 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.”PowerPoint Presentation: “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