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1Transcendentalists Vocabby Nikki2741840 termsDecember 1, 2008
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1any group of new england writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience5 sets
2included whitman, thoreau, emerson - promoted self-reliance, transcending to truth, inner light/peace/spirit, rejected traditional religion3 sets
3followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance, self- culture, self-discipline, and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. they promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.3 sets
4believed in transcendentalism, they included emerson (who pioneered the movement) and thoreau. many of them formed cooperative communities such as brook farm and fruitlands, in which they lived and farmed together with the philosophy as their guide. "they sympathize with each other in the hope that the future will not always be as the past." it was more literary than practical - brook farm lasted only from 1841 to 1847.2 sets
5a group of people who stressed relationship between humans and nature and the importance of conscience.1 set
6writers stressing humans and nature and the importance of individual conscience1 set
7advocates of the system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material1 set
8those who believed they could raise up the world to produce a perfect world that is one with the divine creator1 set
9a group who believed that people should rise above material things.1 set
10argued that not all knowlege comes from the senses and the ultimate truth "transcends" into the physical world1 set
11those who prescribed to the new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in new england in the early to middle 19th century. distinctly american. protest against the general state of society. belief in an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, not through the doctrines of established religions. emerson, thoreau, margaret fuller, etc.1 set
12go beyond human experience, belief in perfectibility1 set
131830s-'50s; centered in concord, ma, this was the us version of romanticism and can be viewed as an emotional reaction to the dry, rational approach of the enlightenment. writers such as r.w. emerson & h.d. thoreau tried to "transcend" the bounds of intellect in their search for truth in the heart & emotions.1 set
14a group of philosophers and writers who rejected traditional religion.1 set
15believed that most important truths in life went beyond human reason1 set
16people could go beyond their sense to learn1 set
17this group believed that people find truth within themselves, not just through experience and observation1 set
18people that believed that people find truth within themselves, not just through experience and observation1 set
19tried to gain unity with god outside organized religion/ famous followers include henry david thoreau1 set
20examined the relationships between philosophy, religion and nature1 set
21any of a group of new england writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature1 set
22thoreau & emerson1 set
23believed that the most important truths in life transcended or went beyond human reason1 set
24people who stressed the relationship between humans and natures as well as the importance of the individual conscience1 set
25emerson, thoreau1 set
26began as a protest against the general state of the culture and society at the time. a group of new ideas expressed in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy which origionated in new england1 set
27to this group, nature was not just a setting for economic activity as many farmers, miners and others believed , but the so9urce of deep, personal human inspiration, the vehicle through which individuals could best realize the truth within their own souls, and that spirituality came not from formal religion but from the natural world.1 set
28stressed the importance of humans and nature1 set
2919th century philosophy that protested against modern society; believed people could transcend the physical world1 set
30the radical, exotic writers of the romantic age1 set
31individual, youth, nature (in god), open mindedness, freedom, intuition, optimistic, doing the right thing, rising above, want change1 set
32small group of ne writers and reformers1 set
33an american literary school of the nineteenth century that emphasized the transcendental unity of humans and nature1 set
34stressed relationship between humans and nature.1 set
35stressed the relatinoship between humans & nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience1 set
36a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in new england in the early to middle 19th century. transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state o1 set
37this group of writers and philosophers was from new england and embraced a theory of the individual that rested on a distinction between what they called "reason" and "understanding"1 set
38emerson and thoreau (1830s-1840s), each person has direct communication w/ god and nature no need for organized churches, promoted individualism, self-reliance, emotions; formed coops such as brook farm and fruitlands, where they lived and farmed w/ philosophy as their guide1 set