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	The Transcendentalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Transcendentalist is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism.
		Emerson laments the absence of "old idealists." He goes on to outline the fundamental beliefs and characterists of the New England Transcendentalists.
		Emerson created a perfect, ideal archetype for the Transcendentalist, but also realized that it would be adapted to fit imperfect humans in an imperfect world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Transcendentalist (214 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 16, No. 3 - October 1959 - BOOK REVIEW - The Transcendentalist Minister: Church Reform in the New ...
		Hutchison also demonstrates that the Transcendentalists were not interested solely in appraising the universe through the spectacles of an intuitive faith, for they were deeply involved in an attempt to reform the Church so that it might express more adequately the implications of their "transcendental" faith.
		These Transcendentalist blueprints of the Church of the Future are strikingly prophetic of the Churches of twentieth century subburbia in which religion in general is exalted.
		The Transcendentalists took their stance upon the authority of a general revelation [in the natural order intuitively apprehended by discrete individuals, and the "orthodox" found it difficult to counter their claim that they had a "right" as Unitarians to do so.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1959/v16-3-bookreview17.htm (602 words)

	AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: American Transcendentalism - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many Transcendentalists, in fact, were Harvard-educated Unitarian ministers who were dissatisfied with their conservative Unitarian leaders as well as with the general conservative tenor of the time.
		Transcendentalists experimented with communitarian living and supported educational innovation, the abolitionist and feminist movements, and a reform of church and society generally.
		Amos Bronson Alcott (picture) was born in Wolcott, Connecticut on November 29, 1799 and was a transcendentalist philosopher and educator.
	www.radicalacademy.com /amphilosophy4.htm (2294 words)

	Rise of Transcendentalism
		For the Transcendentalists, as for the Romantics, subjective intuition was at least as reliable a source of truth as empirical investigation, which underlay both deism and the natural theology of the Unitarians.
		In his reply to the Transcendentalists, "A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity," Norton wrote that their position "strikes at root of faith in Christianity," and he reiterated the "orthodox" Unitarian belief that inner revelation was inherently unreliable and a potential lure away from the truths of religion.
		The heresy of the Transcendentalists (for which the early Puritans had hanged people) was to countenance mysticism and pantheism, or the beliefs in the potential of the human mind to commune with God and in a God who is present in all of nature, rather than unequivocally distinct from it.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA95/finseth/trans.html (1943 words)

	Free-TermPapers.com - Mockery Of Transcendentalism In The Fall Of The House Of Usher
		One of the major beliefs of the transcendentalists is not to dwell in the past.
		Transcendentalists believe that change must come from within, therefore any effort from an external source to change someone will be proven fruitless.
		One of the transcendentalists strongest beliefs is that more important than a concern about the afterlife, should be a concern for this life.
	www.free-termpapers.com /tp/16/evj93.shtml (1292 words)

	Syllabus -- Transcendentalism -- Fall 2001
		In the 1830s and 1840s, "transcendentalist" was a derisive label applied to someone whose philosophy was considered by mainstream Americans to be "vague and illusive." Those who bore that label frequently positioned themselves at odds with the dominant beliefs of the day but also differed quite radically from one another.
		The Transcendentalists were eclectic and engaged readers, believers in what Emerson termed "the use of literature": learning about and changing one's world through careful attention to texts.
		Every Transcendentalist worth her or his salt kept a journal or notebook, in which were recorded observations, events, thoughts, scraps of poems, drawings, fragments of philosophy.
	www.oberlin.edu /english/syllabi/fall01/sm366f01.html (1051 words)

	Encyclopedia: Transcendentalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Ellery Channing (June 10, 1818-December 23, 1901) was a Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing.
		In his 1842 lecture "The Transcendentalist," Emerson suggested that the goal of a purely Transcendental outlook on life was impossible to attain in practice: See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society.
		As defined in "The Transcendentalist" by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emersons The Transcendentalist is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Transcendentalism (3948 words)

	american_transcendentalism.index
		It was for this reason that a few of the Transcendentalists resented the fact that they had official followers of their way of thinking.
		Transcendentalists are often referred to as followers of a purley optimistic belief system.
		A Transcendentalist would interpret evil to be the absence of good, the same way meaninglessness is interpreted to be the absence of meaning.
	www.lclark.edu /~ria/2000/american_transcendentalism.htm (572 words)

	transcendentalist Free Essays
		Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the most important transcendentalist authors of early nineteenth-century New England, advocates higher individualism, obeying instinct, the hope and belief of miracles, and the great importance of self-reliance.
		Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of greatest writers of the 19th century, and being a Transcendentalist, he was a firm believer in nature and using one’s instincts rather than reason.
		They were both members of the transcendentalist club, In their works, Emerson and Thoreau discussed the concepts of intuition, autonomy, and na...
	www.mytermpapers.com /search/70898.html (772 words)

	Transcendentalism
		The Transcendentalist movement which began flourishing in the early 19th century America, especially in New England, was based on some of the concepts of Transcendental Philosophy but did not strictly follow it.
		The early transcendentalists included the essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, the feminist, social reformer, and author Margaret Fuller, a minister Theodore Parker, and the naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau.
		The transcendentalists' concept of a spiritual, inner body within the physical body of man was termed the oversoul, the conscience, or borrowing from the Quakers, the inner light.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/t/transcendentalism.html (1353 words)

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		Wilson is questioning Pearl about her catechism, he asks her who made her, and to this question Pearl “[announces] that she [has] not been made at all, but [has] been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that [grows] by the prison-door”.
		Another characteristic of a transcendentalist heroine is that she is true to her own natural laws.
		However, all transcendentalist heroines possess a tragic flaw, and Hester’s flaw is that she is not fully obedient to her inner truth throughout the novel.
	www.essaycity.com /free_essays/00255.txt (724 words)

	The Transcendentalist Controversy
		Transcendentalist thinkers like both Emerson and Parker tried to shy away from the argument as much as possible by immersing themselves in more important matters, applying their transcendent principles to the social ills of their day.
		The Unitarian Transcendentalist poet, Henry David Thoreau, for instance, became a staunch advocate of civil disobedience in the fight against slavery.
		Because the Transcendentalists viewed God as a living, active and experiential force in the world, it was only natural that they should seek to demonstrate their religious values through social reforms.
	www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/transcendentalistcontroversy.htm (2544 words)

	CliffsNotes::Walden:Book Summary and Study Guide
		In 1817, the transcendentalist movement, for which Thoreau was destined to be one of the major spokesmen, was born.
		In one sense, the transcendentalists were like the Calvinists: They lamented the loss of the deeply felt experience of God and the rigorous morality that had characterized faith in New England before the rise of Unitarianism.
		Emerson and the other transcendentalists asserted that man is not limited to simply learning about God; rather than being only a receiver of sense impressions, man's mind is also a faculty that can create, independent of the senses, a consciousness of God.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-159,pageNum-39.html (1057 words)

	Emerson: Hippies, Hindus and Transcendentalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What Waldo says about the Transcendentalists of his time warmed my '60s-formed heart and suggested that the East had moved West long before our modern multimedia gurus took up residence on the West Coast in the '70s.
		Emerson says that the Transcendentalist is someone who refuses to be tyrannized by the blatancy of the "facts".
		This notwithstanding, the Transcendentalist did not go the whole route with the East but honoured Nature and its Beauty, convinced that they mediated the Oversoul or God.
	www.watershedonline.ca /literature/Emerson/Emersonheroes.html (1030 words)

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		The inevitable failure of Bartleby to maintain a Transcendentalist stance of self-reliance within the framework of society points strongly to the ideological conflict that is both the source of the tragi-comedy and the crux of Melville's own turmoil--although drawn to Emerson's concepts, he viewed them as unworkable.
		Sten advances in favor of "The Transcendentalist" is more applicable to "Self-Reliance." We know that Melville had little direct knowledge of Emerson until the winter of 1848-49 when he heard him lecture.
		This is true, of course, but the whole Transcendentalist stance of self-reliance is a negation of inter-dependence and is based on a self-determining premise.
	www.ku.edu /~zeke/bartleby/puk.htm (5059 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 11/06/2002 -- 01
		Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature.
		But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as a paradigm for the Internet, according to Ann M. Woodlief, an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
		Woodlief says that hypertext linking allows her students to create "Web study texts" that represent the transcendentalist movement as it really was: a vibrant movement dominated by the interconnecting ideas of its chief proponents.
	chronicle.com /free/2002/11/2002110601t.htm (697 words)

	Emerson: Course Summary 3 B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Theodore Parker, a Christian Transcendentalist Abolitionist, was a unique Transcendentalist because he never left the institution of church, seeking to reform it from within.
		Paul said the Transcendentalist Aesthete Convers Francis and the Poet Jones Very could be considered descendents of the Later Romantic posts such as Percy Byshee Shelley and Lord Byron.
		Transcendentalist George Ripley's Brook Farm experiment in community living was evidence of this influence, as was Margret Fuller's form of feminism and political revolution, and Thoreau's idea of civil disobedience.
	www.watershedonline.ca /literature/Emerson/Emersonsummary3BB.html (1130 words)

	FRS UU
		The Transcendentalists were in the forefront of a number of educational reforms and experiments, the best known of which was Elizabeth Peabody’s Temple School in Boston, where Emerson’s protege Bronson Alcott was a teacher.
		Among Transcendentalists who produced extensive platforms for church reform were the already mentioned Theodore Parker and James Freeman Clarke, along with a number of lesser known lights.
		Nature, as the title of Emerson’s first significant Transcendentalist publication indicates, was a primary interest of the Transcendentalists as a source of religious inspiration and truth.
	www.frsuu.org /serm45.htm (1342 words)

	PAL: American Transcendentalism:ABrief Introduction
		The intuitive faculty, instead of the rational or sensical, became the means for a conscious union of the individual psyche (known in Sanskrit as Atman) with the world psyche also known as the Oversoul, life-force, prime mover and God (known in Sanskrit as Brahma).
		Transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic.
		The transcendentalist "transcends" or rises above the lower animalistic impulses of life (animal drives) and moves from the rational to a spiritual realm.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html (2564 words)

	For this reason Transcendentalism remains in American life less as a specific doctrine--no one now calls oneself a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They met and talked and dreamed, and they became known as the Transcendentalists for their drive to live life on a higher plane, more intensely, than mere survival demands.
		The Transcendentalist efforts in education were reincarnated both in (John) Dewey's laboratory school and the open school movement of the 1970s, and Brook Farm (a utopian community they founded) was the prototype of many of the communes of this same period.
		Emerson wrote, ‘This deliquium, this ossification of the soul, is the Fall of Man. The redemption is lodged in the heart of youth," and went on to contrast the Party of Hope with the Party of Memory.
	home.att.net /~balko/uusgu/sermon3.htm (1750 words)

	Henry David Thoreau on Staten Island
		This fact was evidenced when he received a visit from Margaret Fuller - editor of the Transcendentalist journal "The Dial" - that summer and took her on a long carriage ride, pointing out many of his favorite spots as if he'd lived on the island his whole life.
		For all of his delight in Staten Island's abundant vegetation and wildlife, it was the sea that held the most fascination for the young Transcendentalist.
		It was, in fact, the one and only time in his life he lived near the ocean, which he found an almost constant presence, even while exploring the farms and woods in the middle of the island.
	www.literarytraveler.com /henrydavidthoreau/henry-david-thoreau.htm (1269 words)

	Transcendentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It began as a protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church which was taught at Harvard Divinity School.
		Prominent Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, as well as Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, William Ellery Channing, Frederick Henry Hedge, Theodore Parker, and George Putnam.
		The publication of Emerson's 1836 essay Nature is usually taken to be the watershed moment at which Transcendentalism became a major cultural movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transcendentalism (915 words)

	Bhagavad Gita As It Is, 6: Sankhya-yoga, Text 40.
		A transcendentalist is supposed to give up all material activities for the sake of spiritual advancement in life, Krsna consciousness.
		It is enjoined in the scriptures that one has to suffer the reaction of not executing prescribed duties; therefore one who fails to discharge transcendental activities properly becomes subjected to these reactions.
		Even though he may be subjected to the reaction of not perfectly executing prescribed duties, he is still not a loser, because auspicious Krsna consciousness is never forgotten, and one so engaged will continue to be so even if he is lowborn in the next life.
	www.asitis.com /6/40.html (719 words)

	:socialreform::transcendentalism:
		Transcendentalists include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
		Transcendentalists were especially opposed to the institution of slavery.
		Thoreau, a close friend and associate of Emerson, actually conducted a two-year transcendentalist experiment, living by himself in the woods at Walden.
	www.tjhsst.edu /~ccotton/production/Transcendentalism.htm (525 words)

	American Transcendentalism
		For the transcendentalists, the soul of each individual is identical with the soul of the world and contains what the world contains.
		Transcendentalists rejected Lockean empiricism, unlike the Unitarians: they wanted to rejuvenate the mystical aspects of New England Calvinism (although none of its dogma) and to go back to Jonathan Edwards' "divine and supernatural light," imparted immediately to the soul by the spirit of God.
		Amidst materialists, zealots, and skeptics, the Transcendentalist believed in perpetual inspiration, the miraculous power of will, and a birthright to universal good.
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl311/amtrans.htm (1386 words)

	Michael Owens
		The obscurity of the general Transcendentalist beliefs, however, forces many transcendentalists to express their beliefs and to explain their principles through the act of allegorical and symbolic writing.
		Transcendentalists, in general, believe in four main principles: individualism, surrealist idealism, and imagination.
		This collective, which some transcendentalists believe created itself—in effect becoming God—and then created mankind out of the ideas within the collective, rests solely on the souls of individuals.
	www.happydissonance.bravehost.com /essays/essay01.html (1543 words)

	New Walden
		The premise of this design setting is that a modern-day character, imbued with the sensibility, scholarship, and values of Henry David Thoreau decides to test Thoreau's Walden experiences and conclusions in an urban setting.
		It would be difficult to properly assess the goals of the project design without a fundamental knowledge of the American transcendentalist movement which was so critical in the intellectual arena of Thoreau and his mentor, Emerson.
		The transcendentalist movement was the result of a heated religious controversy within the Unitarian church.
	www.spsu.edu /cteacad/rcole/Studio/Vertical/NewWalden.html (559 words)

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