Already a member?
Sign in
Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy!
Transcendentalism
We are getting ready to study a group of writers called transcendentalists. Do a little research of your own on transcendentalism and comment on this page about what you find out. What questions do you have? From what you learn, could you compare transcendentalists to any other groups from history?
Latest page update: made by pru
, Oct 21 2007, 8:51 PM EDT
(about this update
About This Update
Edited by pru
50 words added
view changes
- complete history)
Edited by pru
50 words added
view changes
- complete history)
Keyword tags: None
More Info: links to this page
(Showing the last 5 of 14 - view all)
| Started By | Thread Subject | Replies | Last Post | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SenecaDawn | my dad | 0 | Nov 17 2007, 12:48 PM EST by SenecaDawn | |
 |
Thread started: Nov 17 2007, 12:48 PM EST
Watch
more proof that i think my dad is a huge transendentalist and doesnt even know it! haha
I didnt get home until late last night and when i came down this morning dad was SO sad, and i didn't know why. When i talked to mom, she said he shot a deer last night, and didn't kill it, and never found it. mom said that he was so upset that he HURT a deer and couldnt put it out of its misery, and he's not even going out to hunt today ON THE LAST DAY! and that is HUUUGEE! |
|||
| CJRice | Thoreau | 0 | Nov 8 2007, 5:28 PM EST by CJRice | |
 |
Thread started: Nov 8 2007, 5:28 PM EST
Watch
I' ve spent a lot of time since we've finished this essay in class thinking about it. i've come to the conclusion that Thoreau's ideas are brilliant. He provided a lot of insight into life today, even though he lived a century ago. The thing I didn't like about the essay was his lofty lanuage. Though some of it was incredibly beautiful and poetic,the big part of it seemed dull and dry.
|
|||
| CaylaM11 | the "T" word lol | 1 | Nov 6 2007, 9:40 AM EST by pru | |
 |
Thread started: Oct 23 2007, 10:39 PM EDT
Watch
It was derived from the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." It is a philosophy based on his statement that some notions (such as space/time, morality, and divinity) cannot be directly experienced, yet still add to empirical knowledge. These notions are transcendental in that they have a higher order of existence than what we experience directly in the physical world. Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson said "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." Transcendentalists throughout history have been known as individuals who have attempted to correct what they saw as misperceptions within societies.
|
|||
| SenecaDawn | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 2 | Nov 6 2007, 9:37 AM EST by pru | |
|
|
Thread started: Oct 31 2007, 5:03 PM EDT
Watch
just some research a "headnote"
He was born in 1803 and became the center of transendentalism after he published his book "Nature" in 1836, after 10 years of research on philosophy, religion, and literature. He was the middle child and a son of a preacher and was never expected to go very far. Death was not an uncommon thing in his life; his father died when Emerson was eight, and all three of his brothers, his first wife died at age 20 of tuberculosis, his oldest son at age five, and his close friend Thoreau died soon after from lockjaw. Emerson eventually got through and through a career of 40 years gave about 1,500 public lectures, and traveled as far as California and Canada, and inspired other transendentalists like Elizabeth Hoar, Margaret Fuller and Henry Thoreau. At the end of his life he was very famous for his work around the work and died of pneumonia in 1882. Hopefully that'll save you guys some work! lol |
|||
| lindsayshea | Why I Went in the Woods | 1 | Oct 31 2007, 4:49 PM EDT by SenecaDawn | |
 |
Thread started: Oct 29 2007, 8:11 PM EDT
Watch
I think 99.9% of the class voted that they do not like Thoreau's 'Why I Went to the Woods'. However, I am that like .1% that does. I don't know how to explain WHY, but I LOVE this essay. I really enjoyed annotating this one. I felt like I learned a lot from it, and I actually somewhat understood this one after reading it through a couple of times. The metaphors are awesome, and now that the whole idea of transcendentalism is being made clear to me, I think it is a very neat perspective through which to look at life. :)
|
|||
(Showing the last 5 of 14 - view all)