The Legacy of Transcendentalism

This is a documentry type video for my schools AP English class. It was made to inform.

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[resumevidlance]

Nice work!

[7411750830]

today im gonna write exam on american literature... Transendentalism is my first answer i gonna write today.. I am sure i will write it in perfect way... Great salute to RW Emerson...

[LauraPuffyCloud]

no no, not edgar allan poe.

[GambitFox79]

@breshsheet Respectfully, you misunderstand what Emerson meant.

Emerson believed that a man could never truly know God by just reading about Him--he had to experience God in his heart. You believe in God not only because you read about Him, but because you experience the truth deep within your heart. Emerson would say that knowledge gained from learning is just intelligence--, but wisdom gained from experiencing something is genius.

[PistolPeteJr22]

What I have learned from it, I have found that it is the single movement that spurred American ways. American thoughts. American literature. This Trancendentalism movement is famous because it defines what legacy these writers like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman have left behind.

[thunderbolt94]

@breshsheet

You really misunderstand what Transcendentalism is. Transcendentalism is not some anti-God philosophy. Transcendentalism has nothing to do with either atheism, Christianity, or whatnot. In fact, it's not a set in stone philosophy. It's a philosophy that can be tinkered with and used however you please.

[Ashiman12]

@zerogravity724 Except, the Transcendentalists discouraged intoxicants and wanted LESS government intervention.

[breshsheet]

In the mid-1800s, Ralph Waldo Emerson became a leader in a philosophical movement known as "transcendentalism," which says that truth comes from personal insight. Emerson wrote, "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius." Sadly, Emerson's faulty thinking took root, and personal thoughts about God replaced God's thoughts and words about Himself.

[breshsheet]

The Lord said in Isaiah, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (55:9).

One of ancient Israel's songwriters expressed God's greatness this way: "I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods. Whatever the Lord pleases He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deep places" (Psalm 135:5-6).

[breshsheet]

He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deep places" (Psalm 135:5-6).

Jesus, the image of the invisible God, is the source of all truth (Colossians 1:15-19). John the Baptist said of Him: "He who comes from heaven is above all" (John 3:31).

Only God, the creator of all things, deserves to be called transcendent—that is, above and beyond all things. Contrary to what Emerson concluded, truth comes from above, not from within