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Transcendentalism. Emotion Supernatural Atmosphere. Nature Individual Subjectivity. Romanticism. Transcendentalism. Gothic. American Transcendentalism began in the 1830’s and started to die down around 1860 Many of the Transcendentalists resided in Concord , Massachusetts - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Emotion
Supernatural
Atmosphere
Nature
Individual
Subjectivity
Transcendentalism Gothic
Romanticism
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American Transcendentalism began in the 1830’s and started to die down around 1860
Many of the Transcendentalists resided in Concord, Massachusetts
The Transcendental Club was formed in 1835 Members included Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Henry David Thoreau The Dial, a Transcendental magazine,
flourished from 1840-1844
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Transcendentalists believed that through intuition the individual could go beyond everyday experiences and arrive at higher truths Placed emphasis on self-reliance Required deep faith in the individual
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To Go Beyond Transcendentalists wanted “to go
beyond” the limitations of the senses and everyday experience
“I have never seen a man who was quite awake” (Thoreau). People do not see the roots of things or get to
the heart of the matter
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How Do We Go Beyond Everyday Experience?
By depending on upon our intuition rather than reason and logic
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What Happens When, by the Use of Intuition, We Go Beyond Everyday Human Experience?
People discover higher truths and insights
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Emerson’s Ideas Emerson was the
leader of the Transcendentalists
He believed in intuition – the capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately rather than through our reasoning abilities
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Emerson’s Ideas God can be found
in every aspect of nature God is good and
works through nature
Everyone is capable of understanding God through intuition
Nature is a reflection of the Divine Spirit
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Emerson’s Ideas Believed in an
Over-Soul (Divine Soul) A large entity that
all individual humans were a part of
Everything in the physical world is a reflection of the Divine Soul
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Emerson’s Ideas His outlook was
optimistic Everyone should
follow his own path Believed that God
is good
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Characteristics of Transcendentalism
Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul
The physical facts of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world
People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls
Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition
Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality
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Similarities between Puritanism and Transcendentalism
God could be experienced directly by each individual and did not need to be filtered through external authorities
Both valued self-reliance, industriousness, education, and simplicity
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Differences between Puritanism and Transcendentalism
Puritans looked to the Bible for divine revelation; Transcendentalists looked to Nature
Puritans viewed mankind in two groups, the saved and the damned; Transcendentalists believed that all people were connected to a divine force
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Born Bad or Good?
PuritansSinful Transcendentalis
tsGood
Enlightenment
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