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In this article, the writer provides an analysis of the American Transcendentalist movement (1830s-1840s) that focuses on Thoreau's philosophy and how it relates to the broader movement of philosophical and political thought. The writer examines the core concepts of transcendentalism.

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"The transcendentalist movement originated in Massachusetts and spanned from the 1830s-1840s. Despite its limited geographical and historical parameters, transcendentalism has had an outsize impact on American philosophical and political thought. This impact is largely due to the fact that some of America's most cherished and canonical authors were pioneers of the transcendentalist movement. Henry David Thoreau is widely regarded as the most important transcendentalist author-as well as the most popular. Thoreau's works are read by American students to this day and provide a window into the transcendentalist ..."

Tags:thoreau, walden, philosophy, nature, transcendentalism, transcendental, political

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This study attempts to understand the early 19th century movement in New England called transcendentalism, according to Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, prominent American philosophers, essayists, and poets. The paper maintains that transcendentalists saw the necessity of following the examples of great leaders, writers, philosophers, and others, to show what an individual can become through thinking and action. The paper relates that transcendentalists also believed that one must have faith in intuition, for no church or creed can communicate truth and that true reform comes from within.

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"Transcendentalism was born against the Unitarian church. It questioned the established cultural forms, reintegrated spirit and matter and tried to turn their ideas into concrete action. Transcendentalists viewed knowledge and cultural forms not as perpetual truths but as temporary constructions, and insisted that all such constructions be open to the tests of continuing experience. Emerson briefly summarizes the transcendental understanding with his famous quote, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds..." He later explains the concept of self-reliance in transcendental thinking in one of his essays, Self-Reliance."

Tags:transcendental, transcendentalist, 19th, century

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This paper explains that the concept of transcendentalism is often used in religious and philosophical debates to describe the characteristic of divinity, the feature of God to transcend being and the immanent world. The author relates that famous intellectuals of the time such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Putnam, Elisabeth Palmer Peabody and Frederick Henry Hedge shaped this movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1836. The paper concludes that the philosophy and evolution of the philosophical and religious perspective of transcendentalism should be seen only within the larger frame of the dominant ideology of the time and of the epistemological barriers and rigid framework, which were dominant in the universities of the time.

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"For Emerson, on the other hand, the unity between the soul and the nature is announced even since the publication of his work "Nature". Here, he expressed that all the beings in the Nature are interconnected with each other and with the infinite Oversoul, or Nature. The reverberations of individual acts are felt within the entire system as consequences and the individual has not only the ability to decide autonomously about his acts, but also the duty to deal with the consequences of his own actions, when confronted to his own internal intuition, with his soul."

Tags:rights, goodness, intuition, club, harvard

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This paper discusses the philosophy of transcendentalism through the interpretations of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. It draws from their interpretations and illustrates transcendentalism through Emerson's and Fuller's essays, "Self-Reliance" and "The Great Lawsuit," respectively. The paper then compares their views in terms of gender differences.

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"Emerson also argued how modern society had put down human faculties and ability to learn through his/her feelings--aptly determined as perception. The perception/fact dichotomy has plagued human thinking for many years, and this development in the modern period has been a cause for concern, since, according to Emerson, perception need not be considered as a simple concept that do not have a significant role in influencing human thoughts and feelings. Perceptions, as explicated in the essay, are not "whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of time, all mankind--although it may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun." Thus, Emerson believed that humanity should not only give strong belief on facts, but most importantly, on human perceptions. It is only through human perceptions that higher forms of reality and knowledge can be achieved and become humanly possible."

Tags:knowledge, rationalism, empiricism, Platonism

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The essay gives a formal definition of transcendentalism, complete with examples such as an emphasis on the present, independence, individualism, and God's spirit alive in nature. These topics of transcendentalism are then related to specific points Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", such as rebellion and individualism in the psych ward.

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"There are many interpretations of Ken Kesey's writings, including many that suggest their origins stem from drug use. However, upon deeper examination, it is apparent that Ken Kesey's writings contain traditions of the original transcendentalists. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for example, displays strong themes of rebellion and reform, individualism, and the healing aspect of nature, all of which are characteristics of transcendental thought. Based on this literary movement's ideas, an accurate assumption can be formed that Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, exhibits modern applications of nineteenth century transcendentalism ("Kesey, Ken" 230)."

Tags:intuition, idealism, Nurse, Ratched, McMurphy, asylum

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The paper discusses how Emerson and Carlyle developed a scientific and religious based fervor for Goethe, and this literary relationship helped to unify an understanding of transcendentalism. The paper explains that although Carlyle was not apt to create a new ideology based on enlightenment through nature, he had helped create a viable social perspective on the injustice of theology and industrial progression, which became the mainstay of romanticism in Victorian literature.

Tags:emerson, natural, philosophy

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The paper examines how both Thoreau and Emerson share the same principles of the soul in relation to nature on a philosophical basis, but it is Thoreau that takes these principles into a living experience in the natural world. The paper explains that the far more ontological perspective that Emerson conveys realizes the intellectual basis of transcendentalism, which deals more in treatises, rather than the intensity of experience of Thoreau living in the wilderness lifestyle.

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"This philosophical study will examine the differing aspects of the Thoreau and Emerson's approach to nature in regards to transcendentalism in the 19th century. In realizing Thoreau's more experiential approach to transcendental philosophy, Emerson took a far philosophically considered approach that the universe is composed of nature and the soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which philosophy distinguishes as the "not me," that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, "nature". In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses -- in its common and in its philosophical import."

Tags:thoreau, emerson, philosophy

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This paper discusses the role of transcendentalism in the movie The Perfect Storm. It discusses the reality of how men come to perceive a higher reality through a confrontation with nature. They confront the danger of the sea and, through this experience, come to a higher knowledge.

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This paper presents reasons and examples that demonstrate the Transcendental philosophy exhibited in both Louisa May Alcott's novel, "Little Women" and Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The paper discusses the emphasis both books place on spirituality and the primacy of family and shows how the characters use their spirituality and their love for their families as the means to transcend materialism.

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"Alcott begins Little Women by invoking John Bunyan's seventeenth century text The Pilgrim's Progress. Alcott's excerpt sets the stage for the tone and theme of the events to come in her novel. In fact, the first chapter of Little Women is entitled, "Playing Pilgrim." It is no coincidence that Alcott would choose The Pilgrim's Progress as the work which would influence the minds of the four March daughters. Little Women is partly autobiographical, since Alcott herself grew up in a family of four girls. Moreover, Alcott's father was friends with both Emerson and Thoreau, which undoubtedly impacted young Louisa May. Her exposure to such works as The Pilgrim's Progress was a result of her upbringing, close to the heart of New England transcendentalism and to the values it espoused."

Tags:emerson, thoreau, transdententalists, meg, jo, beth, amy, material, world, eliza, harry

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This paper examines how Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden", or "Life in the Woods", describes, among many other experiences, the transcendental life-style he experienced in his two-year experiment at Walden Pond. It looks at how the experiment at Walden was for Thoreau an attempt to live within nature, to "transcend" not real life but the prison of society and conformity which alienates man from himself, from others and from the spiritual reality which is the essence of nature. It shows how although Thoreau did not consider himself and would never have considered himself, a member of any group which confined his individualism and independence, his outlook on life, nature and man's primary concerns in life and nature coincided with many of the essential Transcendentalist principles. His experiences and writings in Walden reflect his alignment with the Transcendentalists.

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"Thoreau's transcendentalism is in part simply living in nature simply and economically, nurturing and restoring his spirit through a subtle communion with nature, a communion which does not negate the mind and reason, but which exercises and strengthens the mind and reason. His focus on the details of living economically in nature bespeaks the kind of balance in which the animals and plants in the ecology also live. He takes from nature only what he needs and he uses what efficiently everything he takes."

Tags:walden, pond, society, individualism, independence