LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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No topic was off-limits for discussion
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You had to swear an oath on a religious text of your choice.
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All meetings were to be kept secret.
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Everyone had to call Ralph Waldo Emerson “sir.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The only rule the meetings followed was that no one would be allowed to attend if their presence prevented the group from discussing a topic. Emerson’s essay “Nature, ” published in 1836, presented Transcendentalist philosophy as it had formed in the club meetings.
Detailed explanation-2: -Key transcendentalism beliefs were that humans are inherently good but can be corrupted by society and institutions, insight and experience and more important than logic, spirituality should come from the self, not organized religion, and nature is beautiful and should be respected.
Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalism was heavily focused on seeking individual truth and growing to become more and more self-reliant. However, the movement can be described using three essential characteristics or principles: individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Transcendentalism attracted such diverse and highly individualistic figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and James Freeman Clarke, as well as George Ripley, Bronson Alcott, the younger W.E. Channing, and W.H. Channing.