Transcendentalism

= Characteristics: =
 * = Main ideas are individualism, self-improvement, spiritualism, and moral protest. =
 * = Wisdom comes from nature; experience is the key to understanding. =
 * = Pantheism--nature and the physical world as a manifestation of a divine. =
 * = Focuses on the divinity of man and his relationship to nature. =
 * = Belief that people can achieve spirituality without organized religion. =
 * = Belief that people are responsible for their own development. =
 * = Optimistic, convinced in the essential goodness and purposefulness of life. =

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= WRITERS: =

= @Ralph Waldo Emerson =

= @Margaret Fuller =

= @Henry David Thoreau =

= @Walt Whitman =

Page updated 8/7/15.