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Transcendentalism

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

TRANSCENDENTALISM

KAILEY REISER, ERIN COLEMAN, MICHAIAH LEMON

SCIENCE/INVENTIONS

  • 1800 battery
  • 1891 basketball
  • 1876 telephone
  • 1886 Coca-Cola

SOCIAL REFORM

  • roots = Christianity
  • Transcendentalist movement turned into a reform
  • Action against slavery

PHILOSOPHIES

  • Knowledge about what goes beyond the tnings you can see
  • Not religious belief
  • Perfect philosophy for nation where "all men are created equal"

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

  • Born - May 25, 1803 in Boston
  • Boston Latin School, then Harvard University
  • Graduated 1821
  • Licensed minister 1826
  • Married EllenTucker, 1829

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

  • Resigned from clergy
  • Central figure of literary and philosophical group
  • 4 children born in 1840's, 2nd wife Lydia Jackson
  • Advocated to abolish slavery
  • Death - April 27,1882