Transcendentalism is a very formal word that describes a very simple idea. People, men and women equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel. This knowledge comes through intuition and imagination not through logic or the senses. People can trust themselves to be their own authority on what is right. A transcendentalist is a person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships. In other words these people were pretty much hippies. In the same year, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836,
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Many people lack the ablility to speak up and state their beliefs, thoughts, or ideas to others. The person who is an assistant of someone else can be either a free thinker or a person who is very passive. If the boss was to say to the assistant to happened to love animals to go outside and kill the dog who barks all day and scares away customers a passive person will put aside their beliefs on how animals should be treated just as a human would and proceed onto killing the dog, a free thinker will let their boss know how he/she feels about what he/she has been asked to do and will go on to taking the dog and either keeping it or taking it to safety. Being a free thinker plays a big role on how your life will turn out, if you’re too passive you’ll end up where you don’t want to be but sometimes if you’re too much of a free thinker you’ll end up there as well. There has to be a balance between passivness and free thinking and if you have that balance your life will most likely play out how you want it to. “All good things are wild and free.” (Henry David …show more content…
Mother nature is very amazing and it did in fact rule the world before we came along. Many people believe that because we are the dominant species nature is not important and we can do whatever we want with it but that is not acceptable. In order to process well as a human you must first understand the universe and nature is indeed the pathway to that understanding.Without nature we would have no pathway to the understanding of the universe beyond ourselves. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” (Ralph Waldo
Many people lack the ablility to speak up and state their beliefs, thoughts, or ideas to others. The person who is an assistant of someone else can be either a free thinker or a person who is very passive. If the boss was to say to the assistant to happened to love animals to go outside and kill the dog who barks all day and scares away customers a passive person will put aside their beliefs on how animals should be treated just as a human would and proceed onto killing the dog, a free thinker will let their boss know how he/she feels about what he/she has been asked to do and will go on to taking the dog and either keeping it or taking it to safety. Being a free thinker plays a big role on how your life will turn out, if you’re too passive you’ll end up where you don’t want to be but sometimes if you’re too much of a free thinker you’ll end up there as well. There has to be a balance between passivness and free thinking and if you have that balance your life will most likely play out how you want it to. “All good things are wild and free.” (Henry David …show more content…
Mother nature is very amazing and it did in fact rule the world before we came along. Many people believe that because we are the dominant species nature is not important and we can do whatever we want with it but that is not acceptable. In order to process well as a human you must first understand the universe and nature is indeed the pathway to that understanding.Without nature we would have no pathway to the understanding of the universe beyond ourselves. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” (Ralph Waldo