Emerson Emerson's ideals of transcendentalism are clearly expressed in Nature and "The American Scholar." He alludes to the transcendentalist belief in the soul's inherent ability to grasp the truth in Nature when he says: "Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. ... Emerson at first seems to have had very contradictory ideas about the separation between man and Nature. ... Emerson seems to be saying that Nature is an inner source of energy that fills us with power. ... The idea of division between man and nature changes as Emerson explains nature a...

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Constantly mentioning "God" in his writings, Emerson's beliefs were greatly influenced by religion. ... His idea that the soul can exist without being seen shares many aspects with Emerson's spiritual beliefs. ... Emerson greatly supported, admired, and encouraged the ability to believe ones "feelings" other than the majority beliefs. ... Emerson writes, "Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible. ... On the soul's autonomous existence Emerson writes, "The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circum...

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Emerson and Transcendentalism In The Pulley George Herbert stated "He would adore my gifts instead of me; And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature". ... Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of these, devoting his existence to the concept there is divinity in nature and humanity. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson's beliefs are grouped in a category called transcendentality. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson believes that there is Divinity in Nature, and everything makes a circle back to a unity with the universe. ... It is hard to believe that many people have accepted these beliefs as fact and model their ex...

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Emerson continues on in his criticism. ... Emerson's and Thoreau's ideal school would be a school based on transcendentalism, and nature. Transcendentalism is the belief or doctrine asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition. ... They would be in nature, at one with nature, "sucking the marrow out of life." ... The went beyond merely understanding nature to achieving a kind of passionate identity with it. ...

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In comparing Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, there are parallel beliefs concerning simplicity, material goods and the power of the individual's mind and spirit. ... Nature is the key to living an individual life, free of other generations" experiences, thoughts and beliefs. ... Like Thoreau's Walden, Emerson's Nature also strives for the individual's connection with nature. ... After examining Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature and Henry David Thoreau's Walden one can see how these two transcendentalist's beliefs are common...

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Nature, according to Emerson, existed in the physical world, art, and the body. ... In Nature, Emerson makes reference to a "transparent eyeball" (Emerson, PG?) ... I like his wild and genuine belief in the [Spiritual] and the inrushes he got from it" (Harris, 292). ... In Nature, Emerson rejects traditional institutionalized religion arguing that it separates people and denounces nature. ... Religious critics took his writing as a serious threat to their strong beliefs. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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Emerson and Thoreau were Transcendentalists who expressed their beliefs through writings from poems to essays and they believed that "the individual was at the center of the universe" (Prentice Hall). ... First, Emerson's beliefs were mainly on "the human mind [because it] was the most important force in the universe" (Prentice Hall). In "Nature", Emerson viewed nature as the plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign. God made nature and some view it as just trees, leaves, and grass, but Emerson saw the true beauty in nature. ... Next, Thoreau, the pro...

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The situation in the story can consider the questions of respect towards nature. ... This could be raising questions about respect and the power of nature; as if the whale foreshadows what would happen if we didn't respect or if we underestimated natures power. ... Another author of this sort is Ralph Waldo Emerson. ... Transcendentalism is the belief that the human senses can know only physical reality. ... Either way, Emerson does raise many questions of life in his works. ...

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Emerson's Nature was extremely controversial, receiving "extremes of praise and blame" (Myerson 5). ... Nature emphasizes three of Emerson's main ideas: the limitless power of the individual, the importance of nature to the world, and that nature is the image of God, and the idea that God is amongst us all and describes people as a particle of God. His Transcendental beliefs were rejected by many who viewed Emerson's work as sacrilege and disrespectful to the Christian faith but his views also stimulated many "disciples" to follow Emerson and join the Transcendental club (Lear...

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The film Howl and Blue Like Jazz discuss about people's feeling about the life, their role in society and their belief of God. In addition, "The Gay Science and Twilight of the Idols" written by Nietzsche and "Nature" of Emerson talk about people's perception when they learn about God and the nature around them. ... Human's wondering about the life and nature is clearly depicted in "Nature" of Emerson. ... "The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches" (Emerson 7). ... People appreciate nature...

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Emerson's essay, Nature, proposed a new religious vision or outlook on theology. ... This new set of beliefs provided religious sentiment for a modern world. ... According to Emerson, any destruction in nature is in our own eye. ... This view is quite a revision of traditional Christian beliefs. ... In the previous quote, Emerson refers to nature as God. ...

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Emerson brilliantly emphasizes his Transcendental beliefs in his writing, telling us that we should go beyond everyday expectations. ... In Emerson's readable excerpt from Nature, I sense that he has an optimistic outlook on life. ... His articulation compels you to bear in mind his beliefs and bids you the opportunity to form your own opinion. This is why I took pleasure in reading Emerson's excerpt from Nature. ... I have learned the lesson that all that is in nature is good because "Nature never wears a mean appearance." ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian minister that gave up the ministry and began a lifelong career as a lecturer and writer. ... And Emerson's profound love of nature and belief that the supernatural exists in the story Nature makes him a sure thing when it comes to talking about the romantics. Emerson speaks of the stars being "rays that come from those heavenly worlds"(-Ralph Waldo Emerson, pg. 162) and this is another thing he has in common with Hawthorne, they both believe in the supernatural. ... Emerson believed that the greatest delight is only produced by the harmony of man and ...

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He supported this concept that we should rely on our own intuition and beliefs. ... The belief that a man must do what he feels to be happy. ... To do what is against human nature is to violate the laws of Nature. ... Human nature tells us that if something is uncomfortable, we should leave. Conformity with society has disabled this aspect of human nature. ...

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Self-Reliance, standing up for your beliefs and to be willing to fight for what you believe in. ... Emerson's essay self reliance is something we should follow our lives by. He encourages us to move toward nature rather than staying with what society tells us to do and to follow. Everything in nature is on track with God and when we move toward society's way of life, we cut ourselves off from the rhythm that controls all life. ... Even though he had a good attitude and he was delightful with nature, Emerson's frontier was a place of freedom and a place with opportun...

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Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, were one of the many people who were Transcendentalist; these writers went out of their way in society to represent their beliefs. Emerson's beliefs were mainly on "the human mind [because it] was the most important force in the universe" (Prentice Hall 384). In "Nature", Emerson viewed nature as "[the] plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, [and] a perennial festival dressed" (Emerson 388). God made nature and some view it as just trees, leaves, grass, etc., but Emerson saw the true beauty in nature. ... They left...

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If a person is living the way of life of another, then he is false and untrue to his own beliefs. ... Emerson states, "No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." ... Colonel Sherburn also stands by the fact that to be a man, one must be unique in his or her beliefs. ... A real "man" sets his own beliefs and never changes for anyone. Emerson and Colonel Sherburn were completely accurate with their opinion of a "man." ...

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Transcendentalism Essay " Transcendentalism is the belief that man can intuitively transcend the limits of the sense's and logic to receive higher truths and greater knowledge." ... These two men are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Some of the elements of transcendentalism include how man should live close to nature. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both had the same beliefs, they both believed in individuality. ... Also, Emerson believed that live should be lived in Simplicity. ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson establishes this belief by making the assertion that, "every young man [or woman] is born with some determination in his [or her] nature, and is a potential genius" (Emerson). ... Emerson states that, "the child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart, " symbolizing that every child is born with a passion for learning" (Emerson). ... In fact, this number has the potential to be much larger, but it would take the nation wide acceptance of a very unpopular belief: academics are not the key to success alone. ... Emerson acknowledged this belief when he presented the opin...

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Nothing can bring you peace but triumph of principles. " (Emerson 223) said Emerson in his writing called "Self Reliance". ... Henry David Thoreau was a man much like Emerson. They held many of the same beliefs and were both Romantic writers who wrote during the periods of transcendentalism. ... Hawthorn was very different from Emerson and Thoreau in the sense that his ideas and beliefs were almost completely opposite of theirs. ... In conclusion, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorn and Ralph Waldo Emerson are four credited romantic writers who have very strong opinions ab...

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The Transcendentalists were characterized by a belief in the doctrine that there existed an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable only through intuition. ... In opposition to Emerson's belief of conformity as negative, that the conformist will be "clapped into jail by his own consciousness" (21), conformity is a necessary characteristic of man developed to avoid very real dangers. ... Emerson claims that "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... With this boldness he dares to suggest that societal rules and laws are completely se...

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One of the most influential pieces of literature that Ralph Waldo Emerson composed is Nature. ... In Nature, Emerson challenges the accepted enlightenment views and declares that nature speaks "directly to the self, [and] to the individual mind and soul" (Ruland 119). ... (Baym 217) Throughout the book, Emerson discusses the importance of nature and its relationship to man. According to Emerson, both nature and man are necessary because one is needed in order to understand the other. ... Emerson stresses the inexplicable fulfillment that man can glean from nature. ...

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This is similar to Aristotle's dictum "know thyself"; - transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic; - the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization - this depends upon the reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: a) the expansive or self-transcending tendency-a desire to embrace the whole world - to know and become one with the world. ... One of the clearest statements of the ideas of Transcendentalism was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerso...

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