Ideologies

Question 1

Transcendentalism

Answer 1

Philosophical movement developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in New England. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly “self-reliant” and independent.

Question 2

a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.

Answer 2

Existentialism

Question 3

The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.

Answer 3

Nihilism