Category: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
English (EN) Thoreau is one of the leaders of transcendentalism. He strongly believed that actions should be based on your own ideas rather than what society tells you.
Most transcendentalists were people who identified with being Unitarian at one time. Many transcendentalists were at one point Unitarian pastors.
Walden is one of Thoreau's best known books encompassing the idea of self sufficiency and man's ability to commune with nature.
An abolitionist is a person who fights against slavery. Most transcendentalists were abolitionists because they believed all men should be free.
Emblematic means that it acts as a symbol. Transcendentalists believed that nature acted as a symbol of our connection to our spirits.
Transcendentalism is a form of philosophical idealism as far as Plato envisioned it. In short, there is an ideal and non-ideal realm and he transcendentalism is in the ideal.
Intuition is thinking with your gut or heart rather than using logic or your brain. Transcendentalists believe this is the preferred way of thinking.
