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Transcendentalism
Title: Transcendentalism
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 163 | Pages: 0.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Transcendentalism
= a literay movement in the mid-1800's during the American Renaissance
Renaissance: a rebirth or revival; a burst of artistic activity (art, literature, theater, dance, etc.)
Immanuel Kant: German philosopher from whom the word transcendentalism came. The word refers to the idea that in order to determine the ultimate reality of God, universe, self and other important matters, one must transcend or go beyond everyday human experience in the physical world.
Ideas and Belief of …showed first 75 words of 163 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 163 total…reflection of the Divine or Over Soul
- the physical facts of the natural are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world
- people can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls
- self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and trdition
- spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberat intellectualism and rationality
Intuition: capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately through our emotions
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