LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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A philosophy that promotes the advancement of man through education
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A philosophy that advocates women’s rights and equality
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A philosophy that promotes simplicity, intuition and imagination over science and materialism
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A philosophy that advocates the transfer of knowledge through technology
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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: -Intuition allowed the transcendentalist to disregard external authority and to rely, instead, on direct experience. In his essay “The Transcendentalist, ” Emerson explains that transcendentalism is “Idealism as it appears in 1842.” He links it with “the very oldest thoughts” such as Buddhism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalist author, Henry David Thoreau sees materialism as the destruction of society and one’s mind. He articulates this in Walden, “Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them.