Transcendentalism by Sydney Stasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0 Sydney Stasz, Julia Toyer, Ally Wilson en-us 2021-11-29 17:04:47 UTC 2023-03-26 13:00:51 UTC hello@padlet.com The Effects of the Movement: sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920821790 2021-11-30 16:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920821790 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920823397 Transcendentalism had an effect on American literature, they believed that every person's goal should be liberation from the confines of “understanding” and the cultivation of “reasoning” and portrayed their beliefs in many pieces 

]]> 2021-11-30 16:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920823397 awilson110 https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920823832 Background/Experience: He was a Unitarian minister throughout his youth, but he left the church in 1832 to devote himself to writing and teaching transcendentialism. He could also be described as a committed nationalist… passionate about American cultural independence. 

Role in Movement: He was the leader and most eloquent voice.  His lectures drew huge crowds. His conversations drew intellectuals to his home to speak with him. He produced a significant body of poetry, but was most known for his essays and lectures. He wanted people to believe that people could find their own creativity.  ]]> 2021-11-30 16:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920823832 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920823990 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both created many pieces of well known literature in the form of essays, books, lectures, and poems

]]> 2021-11-30 16:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920823990 awilson110 https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920828153 Background/Experience: He moved out to the woods to live alone for 2 years. He lived as simple as a life as he could, hoping to find the essential facts of life and to learn what life has to offer. He wanted to avoid the modern world around him. 

Role in Movement: He went even further in repudiating the repressive forces of society. He wanted people to realize that they did not need to conform to society’s expectations, and that they could instead listen to their instincts. ]]> 2021-11-30 16:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920828153 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920829440 Example of a Transcendentalist Act: Thoreau briefly went to jail rather than agreeing to pay a poll tax, he refused to give financial support to a government that permitted the existence of slavery

]]> 2021-11-30 16:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920829440 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920830347 Literature to note: “Nature” (1836) - Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841) - Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837) - Emerson, Walden (1854) - Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) - Thoreau

]]> 2021-11-30 16:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920830347 Did it Reach its Goals: sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920831160 2021-11-30 16:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920831160 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920832021 The transcendentalists were able to push other americans into fighting for what they believed in and for “liberation from the confines of ‘understanding’ and the cultivation of ‘reasoning’”

]]> 2021-11-30 16:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920832021 Effects on American History: sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920832642 2021-11-30 16:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920832642 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920833521 Transcendentalists are considered to be forerunners in upheavals that were about to break out across the country

]]> 2021-11-30 16:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920833521 sydstasz https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920834563 They inspired many other Americans to fight for their liberation from the confines of understanding, in other words to stand up for what they believe is unjust or needs to change ]]> 2021-11-30 16:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920834563 Reason for the Movement jultoyer https://padlet.com/sydstasz/3ha4reftapp8kky0/wish/1920863106 Transcendentalism had its origin in Unitarianism, but eventually split and embraced more of a spiritual experience. 
Borrowed ideas from German Philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, and Schelling as well as English writers Coleridge and Carlyle. 
Stated that the Theory of the Individual rested on a distinction between reason and understanding. 
They had their own definitions of reason and understanding though: 
  • Reason- the individual's innate capacity to grasp beauty and truth through giving full expression to the instincts and emotions 
  • Understanding- the use of intellect in the narrow, artificial ways imposed by society 
The movement embraced ideas of idealism.
Emerson contributed many ideas to the movement: 
  • The search for self-reliance was really a search for communion with the natural world and God
Thoreau also contributed: 
  • To work for self-realization, individuals must resist pressures to conform and respond to their own instincts

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Individuals should attempt to rise above the limits of intellect and allow emotions to clean an “original relation to the Universe.”

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Henry David Thoreau wrote a book, Walden, to help himself with self-realization and also to inform others
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