LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Transcendentalism was an intellectual movement.
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Transcendentalism was a largely European movement.
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Transcendentalists were interested in the human spirit.
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Transcendentalists valued nature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The transcendentalist movement encompassed many beliefs, but these all fit into their three main values of individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalists believe that society and its institutions-particularly organized religion and political parties-corrupt the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly self-reliant and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community can form.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Transcendentalists revered nature in a divine sense. Nature was not subordinate to them, but instead nature was the other part of a symbiotic relationship. This analogy is the creed of the transcendental view of nature and of man as individual.
Detailed explanation-4: -Simplistic Living. Self-Reliance. Importance of Nature. Spirituality. Spirituality. Simplistic Living. Self-Reliance.