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| 1 | Transcendentalists Vocabby Nikki27418 | 40 terms | December 1, 2008 |
| 2 | Transcendentalistsby kp21 | 10 terms | January 13, 2009 |
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| 1 | followers 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. | 6 sets | |
| 2 | any 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 conscience | 5 sets | |
| 3 | believed that the most important truths in life transcended or went beyond human reason | 4 sets | |
| 4 | included whitman, thoreau, emerson - promoted self-reliance, transcending to truth, inner light/peace/spirit, rejected traditional religion | 3 sets | |
| 5 | believed 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 | |
| 6 | advocates of the system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | 1 set | |
| 7 | those 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 | |
| 8 | any of a group of new england writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature | 1 set | |
| 9 | writers stressing humans and nature and the importance of individual conscience | 1 set | |
| 10 | a group who believed that people should rise above material things. | 1 set | |
| 11 | 1830s-'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 | |
| 12 | a group of people who stressed relationship between humans and nature and the importance of conscience. | 1 set | |
| 13 | those who believed they could raise up the world to produce a perfect world that is one with the divine creator | 1 set | |
| 14 | this group believed that people find truth within themselves, not just through experience and observation | 1 set | |
| 15 | people could go beyond their sense to learn | 1 set | |
| 16 | included thoreau, emerson. people like this promoted self-reliance, transcending to truth, inner light/peace/spirit, and rejected traditional religion | 1 set | |
| 17 | a philosophy from a group of new england intellectuals led by writers ralph waldo emerson, henry david thoreau, margaret fuller and educator bronson alcott. they believed that people could attain perfection and could acquire knowledge about god, the self, and the universe. | 1 set | |
| 18 | believed that most important truths in life went beyond human reason | 1 set | |
| 19 | a group of philosophers and writers who rejected traditional religion. | 1 set | |
| 20 | people that believed that people find truth within themselves, not just through experience and observation | 1 set | |
| 21 | go beyond human experience, belief in perfectibility | 1 set | |
| 22 | examined the relationships between philosophy, religion and nature | 1 set | |
| 23 | an american literary school of the nineteenth century that emphasized the transcendental unity of humans and nature | 1 set | |
| 24 | people who stressed the relationship between humans and natures as well as the importance of the individual conscience | 1 set | |
| 25 | emerson, thoreau | 1 set | |
| 26 | the radical, exotic writers of the romantic age | 1 set | |
| 27 | began 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 england | 1 set | |
| 28 | to 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 | |
| 29 | stressed the importance of humans and nature | 1 set | |
| 30 | 19th century philosophy that protested against modern society; believed people could transcend the physical world | 1 set | |
| 31 | individual, youth, nature (in god), open mindedness, freedom, intuition, optimistic, doing the right thing, rising above, want change | 1 set | |
| 32 | a 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 o | 1 set | |
| 33 | thoreau & emerson | 1 set | |
| 34 | emerson 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 guide | 1 set | |
| 35 | tried to gain unity with god outside organized religion/ famous followers include henry david thoreau | 1 set | |
| 36 | small group of ne writers and reformers | 1 set | |
| 37 | stressed relationship between humans and nature. | 1 set | |
| 38 | this 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 | |
| 39 | stressed the relatinoship between humans & nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience | 1 set | |
| 40 | argued that not all knowlege comes from the senses and the ultimate truth "transcends" into the physical world | 1 set | |