About american trancendentalism


AMERICAN TRANCENDENTALISM
Transcendentalism is a philosophy started in the early 19th century that promotes intuitive, spiritual thinking instead of scientific thinking based on material things. Transcendentalism comes from the Latin word transcendere, which means to "climb over or beyond."
Transcendentalism was an American literary movement that emphasized the importance and equality of the individual. It began in the 1830s in America and was heavily influenced by German philosophers including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Immanuel Kant, along with English writers like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  
Transcendentalists espoused four main philosophical points. Simply stated, these were the ideas of: 
  • Self Reliance
  • Individual Conscience
  • Intuition Over Reason
  • Unity of All Things in Nature
In other words, individual men and women can be their own authority on knowledge through the use of their own intuition and conscience. There was also a distrust of societal and governmental institutions and their corrupting effects on the individual. 
The Transcendentalist Movement was centered in New England and included a number of prominent individuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, and Margaret Fuller. They formed a club called The Transcendental Club, which met to discuss a number of new ideas. In addition, they published a periodical that they called "The Dial" along with their individual writings.

Important figures in American transcendentalism
1.       Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.       Henry David Thoreau
They are regarded as leading American thinkers today
3.       Margaret Fuller
4.       Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
5.       Louisa May Alcott


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