Anti-Transcendentalism

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Anti-Transcendentalism

Anti-Transcendentalism a small philosophical movement predominantly consisting of only two writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Hawthorne and Melville are considered two of the great fiction writers of their time, and together they stood up in opposition to Transcendentalism: what they felt was impractical perspective.

Anti-Transcendentalism Anti-Transcendentalists have important elements that are generally agreed on: man is born with the stain of the original sin and is therefore inherently bad/evil, man is the most destructive force in nature, one can only find God through good works and life experience, there are no universal truths… just individual truths.