transcendentalism test Flashcards
Propose a belief in a higher reality than that found in _________ ________ or in a higher kind of knowledge than that achieved by _____ __________
- Sense experience
2. Human Reason
suggests that every individual is capable of discovering this ______ _____ on his or her own, through ________
- higher truth
2. intuition
transcendentalism is influenced by ______
deism
Deists hold that a certain kind of religious knowledge is either_______ __ ______ ___________ or accessible through ____ __________ __ __________
- inherent in each person
2. the exercise of reason
Transcendentalism also involved a rejection of strict _________ religious attitudes
unlike them, the transcendentalists saw humans and nature as possessing an innate _________
- puritan
2. goodness
Man is… (puritan)
sinful
Man is… (enlightenment)
blank slate
Man is…. (transcendentalists)
good
Transcendentalist writers expressed __________-________ feelings toward nature.
semi-religious
they saw a direct connection between the ______ and the _________ _______
- universe
2. individual soul
purpose of all life was union with the ______ - a convergence of the individual, God, and Nature
over soul
Beliefs : _______, not reason, is the highest human faculty
intuition
Beliefs : a rejection ______
Materialism
Belief : _______ is the path to spiritual greatness
simplicity
Belief : _______ is the source of truth and inspiration
Nature
Belief : non-conformity, _________, and self reliance
individuality
CD : the goal of this essay is to urge ________, ________, nonviolent resistant to government policies to which an individual is morally opposed
- passive
- nonviolent
3.
CD was written after Thoreau spent a night in ____
jail
why did he go to jail
refused to pay a poll tax
SR : Trust ______
thyself
SR : Whoso would be a man, must be a ____”
nonconformist
SR : nothing is at last sacred but ________________________________
The integrity of your own mind
