LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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The Church
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Emerson
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The Individual
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Thoreau
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. An individual is the spiritual center of the universe-and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history and, ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existence of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual.
Detailed explanation-2: -Believed the individual was at the center of the universe, more powerful than any institution whether political or religious (384).
Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Waldo Emerson was its putative leader. Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller were among the principals of the movement. The Transcendentalists believed there is a divine spirit in nature and in every living soul. Through individualism and self-reliance human beings could reunite with God.
Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalism is a philosophy that emphasizes the soul’s inborn knowledge of ultimate realities of the universe, and emphasizes the soul’s transcendence in life as the fundamental goal of man. They believed the mind to be creative in forming its perception.