Transcendentalism
Published on Feb 27, 2017
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1840s america
- What was life like for americans? Rich? poor? northern? Southern? Women? African Americans? Native Americans? Children?
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America 1840s: A nation of Division
- EAST/WEST: Eastern cities, western Frontier
- NORTH/SOUTH: abolitionists/Slavery
- Women: No voting rights
- Children: no child labor laws
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can be understood by their context: what they were rebelling against, what they were trying to be different from.
Transcendentalists can be understood in one sense by their context, by what they were rebelling against, what they were trying to be different from.
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Transcendentalism
- optimistic
- egalitarian
- emphasis on the individual
- Rebellious
- Simplicity
- Spirituality through nature
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Transcendentalism:
- Day 2:
- What does it mean to fully live life?
- What is a meaningful life?
- What is broken or out-of-balance in contemporary America?
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Transcendentalism Day 3
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Who was he?
- What did he believe?
- What do WE think about what he thought?
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Today We will
- Discuss "Emerson" and "Walden"
- Read "the Unamerican Dream"
- Watch a ted-talk about minimalism
