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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”. God is always near He reveals Himself everywhere and at all times in nature . In nature, we are able to find “the perpetual presence of the sublime.” In His presence we feel real delight in spite of sorrow .

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”

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  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:“Nature” and “Self-Reliance” • God is always near • He reveals Himself everywhere and at all times in nature. • In nature, we are able to find “the perpetual presence of the sublime.” • In His presence we feel real delight in spite ofsorrow. • Nature gives us better, “higher” thoughts and emotions.

  2. The Transcendental View • Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul. • The physical facts of the natural world 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.

  3. The Transcendental View, continued… • Self- reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition. • Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality.

  4. Transcendentalism was based partly on the philosophy of Idealism, which dated back to ancient Greece. • It was based also on the ideas of American thinkers ranging from the Puritans to the nineteenth-century Romantics. • Transcendentalists viewed nature as a doorway to a mystical world holding important truths.

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