LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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There is no fundamental reality beyond the physical world.
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Humans have less potential when they act independently.
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There’s a spiritual relationship between humans and nature.
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The natural soul and oversoul should not combine.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With which statement would you expect Transcendentalists to agree? There is a spiritual relationship between humanity and nature. A monument to the Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Transcendentalists valued individualism and self-reliance 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-5: -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.