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American Transcendentalism

American Transcendentalism. Transcendentalist Authors. The Big Three: Emerson Thoreau Fuller Others: Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, William Ellery Channing, Sophia Peabody-Hawthorne, et. al. Basic Premises:. individual is the spiritual center of the universe

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American Transcendentalism

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  1. American Transcendentalism

  2. Transcendentalist Authors • The Big Three: • Emerson • Thoreau • Fuller • Others: • Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, William Ellery Channing, Sophia Peabody-Hawthorne, et. al

  3. Basic Premises: • individual is the spiritual center of the universe • structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self • acceptance of neo-Platonic conception of nature as living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic • individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization

  4. Basic Assumptions • “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).”

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