Henry David Thoreau's Impacts Of Transcendentalism In The Modern World

Transcendentalism in the Modern World Transcendentalism is a philosophical and spiritually movement that protest against the general state and the intellectualism. Ralph Waldo Emerson an essayist, lecturer, and poet led the transcendentalist movement of the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote dozens of published essays. Emerson was one of the few people who believed and led transcendentalism. Henry David Thoreau an author, poet , philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, and historian. Also led transcendentalism. Thoreau was best known for his book “Walden”, and his essay “ Civil Disobedience”. Thoreau was yet another one of few people who believed and led transcendentalism. Although transcendentalism is and was a great movement and idea I do believe that it is not a practical idea due to the fact that people are distracted by technology, greed, and materialist things. As technology …show more content…
Thoreau then says “ Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” To clarify he says we should focus less on issues not worth focusing on so that we can concentrate on what really matters. I do go along with what Emerson is saying on the other hand I do not believe that people can just stop worry about everything and everybody because we worry about the unworthy worries. Also because we value the opinions of others and because of that we so gracefully base our lives on them. Again we as a people are being run by the materialist things that we do not pay attention to what really matters, which is life, so with that being said this is also another reason why it is not