Transcendentalism
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- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Imitation is suicide"
- Everybody is given a plot of land, not always the same amount. It depends on how well you take good care of it, if it grows or not.
- What is the Plot of Ground Theory and who came up with it?
- The belief that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our senses.
- Transcendentalism
- Emerson
- "The greatest geniuses have the shortest biographies"
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Envy is ignorance"
- No because nature, god, and man are all seen as equals.
- Does transcendentalism have a Hiearchical order?
- To believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men
- Definition of Genius
- Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh
- List of Great, but misunderstood people by Emerson.
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself"
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways..."
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Do your thing, and I shall know you"
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
- An ultimate spiritual unity that encompasses all existence and in which each human being has an individual.
- Over-Soul
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
- Emerson
- "To be great is to be misunderstood."
- to go beyond
- Transcend
- Sacred of what people say and think; Post habits, consistency
- List two reasons why we don't listen to ourselves.
- Emerson-Nature
- "I am part or parcel of God."
- T. S. Eliot
- Who wrote "The Waste Land?"
- Nature, God, Man are viewed as one
- The order by which the transcendentalist viewed things?
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
- An attempt to see life as it actually is, not the way we might want it to be
- Realism
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Society is a joint-stock company"
- Emerson-Nature
- "In the woods is perpetual youth"
- Emerson-Self Reliance
- "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
- Emerson-Nature
- "I became a transparent eyball"