الفئة: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
English (EN)Moncure D. Conway was an abolitionist and author as part of the transcendental movement. He was ordained, but later lost his title because of his strong views on slavery.
Samuel Longfellow was part of the second wave of transcendentalists. Similar to many transcendentalists he started out as a pastor.
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was part of the second wave of transcendentalists. He is known for being a writer of many of the key figures memoirs.
Margaret Fuller was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. She was considered of the the heads of the American transcendental movement.
Emblematic means that it acts as a symbol. Transcendentalists believed that nature acted as a symbol of our connection to our spirits.
Transcendentalism is a form of philosophical idealism as far as Plato envisioned it. In short, there is an ideal and non-ideal realm and he transcendentalism is in the ideal.
Thoreau is one of the leaders of transcendentalism. He strongly believed that actions should be based on your own ideas rather than what society tells you.
