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The Transcendentalist Legacy: From Emerson to Hippies to Environmentalists

Explore the profound influence of Transcendentalists on modern movements like Hippies and Environmentalists, emphasizing nature, humanity, and individualism. Discover key figures and works that shaped this ideology in 19th and 20th centuries.

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The Transcendentalist Legacy: From Emerson to Hippies to Environmentalists

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  1. Transcendentalists: Original Hippies and Environmentalists By Eva Arce

  2. TRANSCENDENTALISM

  3. 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.

  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature (1836) • The American Scholar (1837) • Self-Reliance (1841)

  5. Henry David Thoreau • Walden • Civil Disobedience

  6. Margaret Fuller • Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843)

  7. 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)

  8. Characteristics • Glory of Nature • Emphasis on the goodness of humanity • Individualism • Self-reliance • Tolerance

  9. Characteristics-continued • Focus on the human spirit • Belief in the Brotherhood of Man • Truth through Intuition • Optimism/Idealism • Belief in the Over-Soul

  10. Transparent Eyeball(Go to readings)

  11. Pocahontas Disney Motion Picture

  12. The Empire Strikes Back Transcendentalism à la Yoda

  13. Avatar

  14. 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.

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