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If you had to summarize transcendentalism to someone else, what would you say?
What Caused Transcendentalism to End?
4 Beliefs of Transcendentalism
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- Real truth can only be understood by transcending logic
- The Oversoul- belief in spiritual entity or force that connects all living things
- Belief in the individual (self-reliance,conformity, the human spirit
- Nature
- The start of writing more realistic stories
- growth of pessimism as slavery divided the nation
- Civil War coming
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- turn to page 238
- read the "Meet the Author" section and make sure to pay attention to the vocabulary.
- continue to read the selection, "Nature"
- Emerson believed that nature is everything from the universe to God
- Nature is a theory, science is the key to unlock this theory, and mankind does not know enough about science to unlock the mysteries and theories of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Recognized as our first truly American thinker
- he was a philosopher, poet, and essayist
- Transcendentalism was significantly known after Emerson founded the Transcendental club
- his first book was Nature, published in 1836
Based on previous knowledge, What do you think transcendentalist writers wrote about?
- A Transcendentalist is a person who accepts the ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships
- These people were connected through a group known as the Transcendental club
- The leader of the club was Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is Transcendentalism?
- A simple idea that people think about themselves and the world which exists beyond reason and experience
- This movement started because of the rejection of certain religious reasons
Transcendentalism (1800-1830)