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Unit 2 Tenets Flashcards

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Each person should follow their own conscience, no matter how different their ideas and beliefs are from society’s

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Transcendentalism

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2
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Nature is a violent, destructive force

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Dark Romanticism

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3
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Drew inspiration from myths, legend, and folk lore

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Romanticism

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4
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View nature as a pathway to spiritual and moral development

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Romanticism

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5
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Supernatural entities are malevolent

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Dark Romanticism

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Value feelings and intuition over reason and logic

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Romanticism

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Every individual is good and deserved the respect of all men

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Transcendentalism

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Nonconformists are singles out for persecution

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Dark Romanticism

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Intuition and conscience transcend experience and are better guides to behavior than the senses or logical reasoning

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Transcendentalism

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10
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Prefer nature to artificial civilization

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Romanticism

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Every individual should be self-reliant and self-trustworthy

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Transcendentalism

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12
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Every individual should express themselves freely

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Transcendentalism

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13
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Places faith in inner-experience and the power of imagination

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Romanticism

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14
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Champions individuality and nonconformity

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Romanticism

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15
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The past is not sentimentalized or nostalgically presented

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Dark Romanticism

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16
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Human potential is limitless

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Transcendentalism

17
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An omni-present Over-soul can be found in every person and all of nature

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Transcendentalism

18
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Sees poetry as the literary genre most conductive to expressing the imagination

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Romanticism

19
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People should simplify their lives and turn away from materialistic lifestyles

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Transcendentalism

20
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Emphasis on the supernatural

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Romanticism

21
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Innocence can be corrupted and is a liability

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Dark Romanticism

22
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Nature is good and humans should commune with it in order to discover the lessons that it has to teach

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Transcendentalism

23
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Prefers youthful exuberance to sobering sophistication

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Romanticism

24
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Values the past and distrusts progress

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Romanticism

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