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Transcendentalists: Original Hippies and Environmentalists. By Eva Arce. TRANSCENDENTALISM. ASSERTION:
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Transcendentalists: Original Hippies and Environmentalists By Eva Arce
ASSERTION: With their love for nature and humanity, Transcendentalists of the Nineteenth Century in America established the ideas that Hippies and Environmentalists embraced in the Twentieth Century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature (1836) • The American Scholar (1837) • Self-Reliance (1841)
Henry David Thoreau • Walden • Civil Disobedience
Margaret Fuller • Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843)
Frederick Douglass • A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) • My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
Characteristics • Glory of Nature • Emphasis on the goodness of humanity • Individualism • Self-reliance • Tolerance
Characteristics-continued • Focus on the human spirit • Belief in the Brotherhood of Man • Truth through Intuition • Optimism/Idealism • Belief in the Over-Soul
Pocahontas Disney Motion Picture
The Empire Strikes Back Transcendentalism à la Yoda
THEMATIC CONCLUSION: By respecting nature and maintaining an open mind towards other people and their cultures, the Transcendentalists gave modern man sound advice about how to treat each other and our planet.