Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism were Romantics, they believed god spoke to people in their minds and their hard work.But not only that but they thought all humans were good and pure.Another thing they believed was God communicated through nature and spoke to individuals.



Nature

In this summary Ralph Waldo Emerson was trying to describe the way transcendentalist and himself felt and believed about nature.They believed nature changed the way people felt and their age difference. In one of his paragraphs he stated " the sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child." Which means when I am around nature alone i feel like a child who has just gotten a new toy I am amazed.Another quote I liked and showed a good stand point of what transcendentalism is. This quote was when he said I become a transparent eyeball;I am non thing;I see all;the currents of the universal being circulated through me I am part or parcel to god. Now what he is saying that I am invisible and i am a piece of god,and i can also see beyond my life when i am around nature alone. This connects to transcendentalism because it talks about nature and nature is one of the major stands in Transcendentalism.



Self- Reliance

In this summary Ralph Waldo Emerson describes how the way society is and that you should be self- reliance and be yourself not like everyone else. Basically Ralph is saying you should not want to be the same as everyone else because god something has something planned for you, not what he has planned for someone else.(Quote from his summary) is " Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of it's members. In other words its saying society is working against everybody. In this type of things you would find a Non Conformist a good example of this is Brittney Spears. A non conformist is some one who dose the opposite of what every one else think that she or he may do. "To be great is to be misunderstood" in other words he is say to to be great you have to break away from what every one else is doing to get yo credit from being different.

Resistance to Civil Government

Resistance to Civil Government, is a summary by Henry David Throes. In this summary it explains how certain people from the transcendentalism thought they should have a government while others thought different.Others thought different, they thought it wasn't necessary to have a government if i can communicate with god in my mind.The point was that if i can talk to god then why should i need a government ,god would tell me to do something that was wrong.In the end an "Individual Mind is the most powerful instrument".


Scenarios:
The scenario that i picked was about Chris who is a college senior and wants to change his mager so that he can teach.Its understandable why his wife doesn't want him to become a teacher because the salary is different from a lawyers salary.If it was me i would be understandable a be supportive.

Transcendentalist think god talks to people in their head so he probably would not worry about others & just stick to what god wants him to do.Maybe even do work witch is teach for that's what god wanted him to do."Transcendentalist belived that god spoke through peoples minds & their hard work".

Another quote: Since god spoke to through individuals, maybe Chris was just one of those individuals god had spoken to and changed Chris mind to become a teacher.