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1 Transcendentalism

2 Please tell me you know where New England is Massachusetts – Boston – Concord – Salem

3 What’s happening in America? Scientific advances – New agricultural machines – New roads, canals, and railroads – Telegraph lines Led to OPTIMISM

4 Characteristics of Transcendentalism Idealists Universal soul – all forms of being are spiritually united Anti-materialism Values feelings over reason The opposite of Paris Hilton

5 Nature Nature is divine Nature holds the truths of life To communicate and be one with nature is true goodness Nature is innocence and an escape from the evils of society

6 Individualism Rejection of standard societal beliefs Inner truth is the only thing that matters Fulfillment comes from knowing one’s self, not wealth, gender, or education Opposite of

7 Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian pastor Transcendental Club – intellectuals gathered to discuss philosophy, religion, and literature Famous for Nature

8 Henry David Thoreau Emerson’s student Understand philosophy through experience Lived alone at Walden Pond for 2 years Famous for Walden The Thoreau Society

9 Anti-Transcendentalists Dark vision of the world Truths of existence are vague and disturbing Limitations and potential destructiveness of the human spirit Nathaniel Hawthorne – “The Scarlet Letter” Herman Melville – Moby Dick

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