Common Elements Of Transcendentalism Research Paper
Hello, below is my lecture summary for Friday, April 22, 2016
Today in class we discussed common elements of Transcendentalists writing. The five most prominent transcendentalist writers are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Margret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. There are four common reactions and four general agreements found in these five Transcendentalist writer’s work. Transcendentalist writing was a reaction against rigid rationalism, the empirical philosophy of John Locke (All knowledge comes from sense impressions), formalized religion (Especially Calvinist orthodoxy), and social conformity, materialism, and commercialism. These elements which were common in the writing found prior to the era of transcendentalism,
Today in class we discussed common elements of Transcendentalists writing. The five most prominent transcendentalist writers are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Margret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. There are four common reactions and four general agreements found in these five Transcendentalist writer’s work. Transcendentalist writing was a reaction against rigid rationalism, the empirical philosophy of John Locke (All knowledge comes from sense impressions), formalized religion (Especially Calvinist orthodoxy), and social conformity, materialism, and commercialism. These elements which were common in the writing found prior to the era of transcendentalism,