Franke Transcendentalism

What is Transcendentalism

1820s-1830s: refers to to the innate ability within all people to fulfill there potential, to overcome adversity, to face challenges directly, to rely on an inner voice and instinct to guide them through life.

Intuition

“gut feeling”

Individuality

above social acceptance and creativity above financial prosperity. Own personal convictions and not comply with accepted rules of normal.

Spirituality

protestant, concerned with the sprit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Idealism

believed that all humans are inherently good.

Importance of Nature

that we are connected to divinity through nature.

Simplicity

led simple lives in pursuit of a deeper life. learning stuff has kept us from living meanifully.

Elevation

everyone was on the same level no matter race, sex or gender

Metaphor

figurative language in which two unlike things are compared in non literal ways.

Paradox

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that carries some truth to it.

Allusion

a reference designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicity

Personification

given human characteristic to something nonhuman.