THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Instinct
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Liberty
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Work
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Nature
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Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalists highly valued the concept of thinking for oneself and believed people were best when they were independent and could think for themselves. Only then could individuals come together and form ideal communities.
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: -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.