Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, & Dickinson (Ferg)

Transcendentalism is...

• a love of people

• an ideal way of life

• a way to transcend the way we garden

• a philosophy to love nature and trust emotions rather than reason

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Transcendentalism was an offshoot of...

• Romanticism

• Dark Gothic

• Nature Study

• Mentalism

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What are the three essential characteristics or principles of Transcendntalism?

• People are inherently evil and nature deceives.

• Material things will lead you to want more and nature will not.

• The good in this earth is in good people and the most colorful flowers of nature.

• Individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature are essential.

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Transcendentalists believed that the way to discover spirituality is:

• to openly trust what people told you to believe.

• to look inwards and connect to nature to discover self.

• to always follow the rules of life.

• to read often, discover what others think, then decide your own thoughts.

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A Transcendentalist might suggest that:

By contemplating ________,

the individual can _________

the world and discover their _________.

• transcendence, forget, intuition

• true freedom, embrace, destiny

• nature, transcend, divine truth

• god, escape, true nature

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Transcendentalism was a social reform movement that valued ___________ over Society.

• Unity
• Government
• Individuality
• Society

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According to the SIX TENETS we reviewed, Transcendentalists believed that what was the highest form of the soul?

• human intuition

• human individuality

• natural experience

• simplification

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Humans who study nature...

• can never know everything about it

• will eventually learn all of its secrets

• have a better appreciation for all beauty

• understand how small humans' influence is

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Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Robin Williams

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How does Emerson feel about the ownership of nature?

• he thinks that it is wrong for men to attempt to own nature by owning land

• He thinks that people can enjoy nature but never truly posses it

• He is envious of the men who can afford to own a portion of nature by owning land

• He thinks that the only true owners of nature are poets as they understand nature

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