What does the word Transcendental ism mean Transcendental Beyond the limits of ordinary experience ism practice of Meaning Examples Jovial Word ID: 200476
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Happy Monday!
What does the word “
Transcendentalism” mean”
Transcendental: Beyond the limits of ordinary experience
ism: practice ofSlide2
Meaning:
Examples:
Jovial
Word
Meaning
Jovial
Having or expressing humor;
jolly
Wistful
Sad; depressed; melancholy
Acerbic
Sour or bitter tasting;
acid
AbstruseNot easy to understandNostalgicA bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past
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Abstruse
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TranscendentalismSlide6
What does “transcendentalism” mean?
There is an ideal spiritual state which “transcends” the physical…A loose collection of eclectic ideas about literature, philosophy, religion, social reform, and the general state of American culture.
Transcendentalism had different meanings for each person involved in the movement.Slide7
Where did it come from?
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave German philosopher Immanuel Kant credit for popularizing the term “transcendentalism.”It began as a reform movement in the Unitarian church.It is not a religion—more accurately, it is a philosophy or form of spirituality.It centered around
Boston and Concord, MA. in the mid-1800’s.Emerson first expressed his philosophy of transcendentalism in his essay Nature.Slide8
Basic Premise #1:
The Power of the Individual
An individual is the spiritual center of the universe, and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history and, ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existence of
God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual. Slide9
Basic Premise #2:
All Knowledge begins with self-knowledge The structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self—all knowledge, therefore, begins with self-knowledge. This is similar to Aristotle's dictum "know thyself." Slide10
Basic Premise #3:
Nature is a living mystery Transcendentalists accepted the concept of nature as a living mystery, full of signs; nature is symbolic. Slide11
Basic Premise #4:
Happiness depends upon self-realization
The belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization—this depends upon the reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: The desire to embrace the whole world—to know and become one with the world. The desire to withdraw, remain unique and separate—an egotistical existence. Slide12
Who were the Transcendentalists?
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauAmos Bronson Alcott
Margaret FullerEllery ChanningSlide13
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882
Unitarian ministerPoet and essayistFounded the Transcendental ClubPopular lecturerBanned from Harvard for 40 years following his Divinity School addressSupporter of abolitionismSlide14
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Slide15
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862
Schoolteacher, essayist, poetMost famous for Walden and Civil DisobedienceInfluenced environmental movementSupporter of abolitionismSlide16
Thoreau’s
Walden
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. “
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“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.”
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Amos Bronson Alcott1799-1888Teacher and writer
Founder of Temple School and FruitlandsIntroduced art, music, P.E., nature study, and field trips; banished corporal punishmentFather of novelist Louisa May AlcottSlide19
Margaret Fuller1810-1850Journalist, critic, women’s rights activist
First editor of The Dial, a transcendental journalFirst female journalist to work on a major newspaper—The New York TribuneTaught at Alcott’s Temple SchoolSlide20
Ellery Channing1818-1901Poet and especially close friend of Thoreau
Published the first biography of Thoreau in 1873—Thoreau, The Poet-NaturalistSlide21
Major Themes: Nonconformity
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”Slide22
Major Themes: Self-Reliance
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide…” Slide23
Major Themes: Free Thought
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government let it go…but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”Slide24
Major Themes: Importance of Nature
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience”“Earth laughs in flowers.”
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”Slide25
Major Themes: Confidence
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”Slide26
Thoreau’s
Walden
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. “
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Happy Tuesday!
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and have lived well”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPrCck-wqt8Slide28
Happy Wednesday!
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is not path and leave a trail.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq86e4Fhja0Slide29
Happy Thursday!
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_zsMwCOoEshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQtmGcdSDAISlide30
Happy Friday!
Word
Meaning
Jovial
Having or expressing humor;
jolly
Wistful
Sad; depressed; melancholy
Acerbic
Sour or bitter tasting;
acid
Abstruse
Not easy to understand
NostalgicA bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past