TRANSCENDENTALISM

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TRANSCENDENTALISM
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What was it?

• A literary, philosophical, and political movement
  (much like Romanticism)

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When?

• 1830s and 1840s (just after Romanticism)

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What did it emphasize?

• Nature within nature, we can discover ourselves
  (the sun me you the grass)
• Emotions focus on emotions and the senses
  rather than reason and intellect
• The Individual happiness depends on
  self-realization

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Major Authors

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Margaret Fuller
• Walt Whitman

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Leader of the Transcendentalism movement
• Believed that all things and people are connected
  to God

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Instructions for Journaling

• For each quote, write the quote , then answer a
  and b.
• Quote
• What do you think this quote means? (put it in
  your own words)
• Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

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1. Very early, I knew that the only object in life
   was to grow. - Margaret Fuller
2. Its not what you look at that matters, but what
   you see. - Thoreau
3. It is easy in the world to live after the
   world's opinion it is easy in solitude to live
   after our own but the great man is he who in the
   midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
   the independence of solitude. - Emerson
4. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust
   laws. - MLK Jr
5. The world is but a canvas to our imagination. -
   Thoreau
6. Write it on your heart that every day is the
   best day of the year. - Emerson
7. We boil at different degrees. - Emerson