TRANSCENDENTALISM

BASIC PREMISES

• A union of the individual psyche with the world psyche
• It begins with self-knowledge

IMMANUEL KANT

• He was a german philosopher
• He came up with the term transcendental
• He was of the first transcendentalist

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

• For Emerson this was not a new philosophy
• The oldest of thoughts was idealism
• Transcendentalists were idealists but much broader
• Highlight of his life; he met Abe Lincoln

MARGARET FULLER

• She was a feminist
• She learned latin at 6 and greek at 10
• She was tactless
• She became America's First Women foreign correspondent
• She worked on the NY tribune

JONATHON EDWARDS

• He found gods wisdom in astrology
• He was a native mysticism
• He is not related to Hannah Edwards

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

• He did whatever he wanted
• He was a civil disobedient who did not pay taxes
• He preached passive resistance
• Though he also violent action
• He thought actions spoke louder than words

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