LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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following the rules
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being like everyone else
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joining the majority opinion
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not conforming to what others do and say
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Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalists advocated the idea of a personal knowledge of God, believing that no intermediary was needed for spiritual insight. They embraced idealism, focusing on nature and opposing materialism.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a group, the transcendentalists led the celebration of the American experiment as one of individualism and self-reliance. They took progressive stands on women’s rights, abolition, reform, and education. They criticized government, organized religion, laws, social institutions, and creeping industrialization.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, while the idea of Transcendentalism is great, there are many methods of execution in which it can not only be ineffectual, but also quite harmful, if taken too far. Especially harmful is an acute sense of nihilism, cultural degradation, and a disillusioned sense of perfection when it comes to life in general.
Detailed explanation-4: -The American Romantic and Transcendental movements of the 19th century were a reaction against the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment’s emphasis on science and rationalism as ways of discovering truth.