Transcendentalism Flashcards
What is the goal of human life?
To transcend the artificially of society and to experience divinity in nature and ourselves.
To go beyond the limits of; exceed; be above and independent of the physical universe.
Transcend
Transcendentalism was a ___ ___. ___ movement that flourished in the US
Philosophical spiritual and literary
They believed that through the attainment of knowledge, human beings could transcend the limitations of the physical senses and attain spiritual awareness and enlightenment
Philosophically
Personal belief and meditation was valued over organized worship and services
Spiritually
Each individual has a ___
Spark of divine
Transparent eyeball can
Absorb and observe
Transcendentalists like their fictional counterparts. The romantics were trying to forge a distinctly American literature and philosophy that valued the power of the individual
Literary
The divine spirit or mind that was presenting every man and nature (all of it)
Oversaul
It was all pervading, omniscient, and supreme mind
Oversaul
Was a reflection of the divine mind
Nature of humanity
A part of something used to refer to the whole
Synecdoche
An entity referred to by one of its attributes of associations
*the substitute
Metonymy
Explores a deep mystical connection between man,nature, and the soul.
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