Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest to the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School.Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. They had faith that people are at their best when truly “self-reliant” and independent
it was a religious theory developed in the mid 19th century that proclaimed that truth can’t be found just by observation, and that it rather “transcends” the senses over time. Key figures: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest to the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School.Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. They had faith that people are at their best when truly “self-reliant” and independent
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it was a religious theory developed in the mid 19th century that proclaimed that truth can’t be found just by observation, and that it rather “transcends” the senses over time. Key figures: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau