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All about being with nature, going with intuition, forgetting about material goods)
1. Concern with this life over afterlife.
2. Empasis should be placed on here and now.
3. Death is never to be feared. At death, the soul merely passes to the oversoul.
4. The emphasis is placed on human thinking
(a. thinking helps us to actualize the authority or out intuition. Thus we feel what is right/wrong. )
5. It is important to have great leaders, writers, philosophers, and others.
(a. They show what an individual can become through thinking and action) |
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1.The oversoul ( A cosmic unity between man. god and nature)
2. Direct Relationship with God
3. Importance of Studying Nature
4. Man is innately good
5. Importance of Intuition in Understanding essential truth
6. Individualism and Self-Reliance |
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1840-1855 (New England Renaissance)
Took place in Cambridge mostly and spread to other parts of New England. |
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| Roles of Emerson and Thoreau |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher, teacher
Henry David Thoreau:
student, practitioner |
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Emerson
~ Complains that we except the past instead of having our own ideas
~Says that all the answers to life and happiness lie in nature. Nature is also a mirror of the soul. We must be one with nature to get answers and happiness.
~We must look at the world like a child, because they realize how wonderful it really is
~you must become one with nature |
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Emerson
~Tells people to speak their minds because if they don't someone else will
~Must be confident, and not care what other people think. NEVER CONFORM.
~you must know what is right for you and what it wrong, you cant let someone else tell you
~ you must fight to stay yourself in a crowd. |
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Thoreau
~Homourous tone (puns and word play)
~tells people right off the bat that his advice is just for the unhappy people
~most men are unhappy because they spend all their time working (need money to buy foolish things, they are never happy
~Luxury holds us back
~humans only need four things
1. food
2. shelter
3. fuel
4. clothing |
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Thoreau
Lived in the woods for 2 years 2 months. Condensed it into one year, and wrote about it. (he was trying to test what Emerson taught) |
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Walden -Thoreau
~Live Deliberately (know what you want and get it)
~ you need to wake up and not just do the same thing everyday in order to be alive. Can't just work all the time.
~simplify and be happy.
~Can't care what anyone thinks. If you are not to busy to gossip you are not to busy to change your life. DONT CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. |
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