Transcendentalism

JOVON GLENN

BELIEF

• transcendentalist believed that through nature we are connected, nature to them was there god

Other Beliefs and principles

• Some other transcendentalist beliefs were in idealism, optimism, Pantheism,

"Natural Supernaturalism," and Cosmic Piety

Important people• Ralph waldo Emerson was a key contributor to many transcendentalist ideas

meaning• Trans means across or through

• Scend means ascend or elevate

Ways to become close to nature• They used work, meditating, and art to become closer to nature

Literary rebel

• Transcendentalism was a way of rebelling against what was seen as the current situation

Spiritual world• The transcendentalists believed there are two worlds material world and spiritual world

Time period

• Transcendentalism took place in the 19 the century from 1836-1860

women

• Here are some of the important women of transcendentalism

• Julia ward Howe, Harriet martineau, Margaret fuller, Emily dickenson

founders

• Transcendentalists were mostly new Englanders, from Boston

signs

• Transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as

a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic

ideas

• Several transcendentalist ideas were ,individualism, self-improvement,, and moral protest

religion• Some transcendentalists were Christians some were not, they were many different religions

Civil rights movement

• The civil rights movement of 1950 was directly influence by transcendentalism

Animals rights

• Animal rights were also influenced by transcendentalism

Feminist movement

• The feminist movement was also influenced by transcendentalism

Ecology movement

• Lastly the ecology movement was influenced by transcendentalism

Unitarianism

• Unitarianism grew out of the Age of Reason. In contrast to the evangelical Christianity that grew in the same period, Unitarianism was never a mass movement, but its members tended to be highly educated and socially active. Thomas Jefferson and other "Founders" are often identified as Unitarians. Transcendentalism may be seen as an attempt to revive Unitarianism with greater emphasis on Romantic qualities like emotion, spirit, mystical experience, ect .

sources

• Some of the sources of transcendentalism

• Puritanism, platinism and neo platinism, kantian metaphysics, Romanism, and Orientals and mysticism