What is Transcendentalism? What is transcendentalism again?

Transcendentalism and Acceptance differ from Transcendentalism in three ways:

1. The meaning of the two is different:

1. The meaning of transcendentalism: The core view of transcendentalism is to advocate that people can directly know the truth beyond feeling and reason, emphasizing the importance of intuition, and believing that everything in the human world is a microcosm of the universe, which has been diluted with the birth of practical philosophy.

Transcendentalists emphasize the essential unity of all things, that all things are conditioned by the "super-spirit", and that the human soul is in agreement with the "super-spirit". This affirmation of the sanctity of man has led the transcendentalists to despise external authority and tradition and to rely on their own direct experience.

2. The meaning of transcendentalism: transcendentalism is a philosophical trend. Transcendentalism holds that ideas and concepts formed by the human mind have the nature of autonomous existence, and denies that these ideas and concepts are merely a reflection of people's changing time of experience.

The extreme manifestation of the idea that gives great strength and power to the human intellect, and that the reality of experience is largely formed by the human mind, is the belief that the only pillar of the universe is the human mind.

Second, the characteristics of the two are different:

1. Characteristics of transcendentalism: The spirit of transcendentalism in pursuit of human freedom has become an important heritage in American culture. This trend of thought, which originated in monotheism and at the same time accepted the influence of Romanticism, emphasized direct communication between man and God and the divinity of human nature, and as a result, it liberated human nature, raised the status of human beings, and made human freedom possible.

Transcendentalism has a strong critical spirit, and its social goal is to build a morally complete and truly democratic and free society, albeit with utopian ideals.

2. Characteristics of transcendentalism: Transcendentalism is a manifestation of idealistic epistemology, which is fundamentally opposed to materialist reflectionism. It believes that human knowledge is something that precedes sensory experience and social practice, and it is innate, which is also known as transcendentalism and idealism.

Third, the representatives of the two are different:

1. Surfactant: American thinkers and poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

2. Representatives of transcendentalism: the ancient Greek philosopher Plato and the American thinker Emerson.

The core idea of transcendentalism is that man can directly know the truth beyond sensation and reason, emphasizing the importance of intuition, and it believes that everything in the human world is a microcosm of the universe"The world shrinks itself into a drop of dew"(Emerson's words), which faded with the birth of practical philosophy.

Transcendentalists emphasize the essential unity of all things, and all things are subject to it"Transcendental"conditioning, and the human soul with"Transcendental"Unanimous. It can be seen as a branch of mysticism, which is as unfalsifiable and mystical as transcendentalism, and mystics of different traditions do not need to rely on formal clergy, nor necessarily on specific rituals, nor do they need to use tools such as ritual objects and altars.

This Saturday in the Shandong Provincial Library read the famous American writer Thoreau's work "Waldner Lake", this ** has long been heard, in the high-speed rail station has also seen, but has not been fate to read, this time finally got my wish, from the preface of this ** to know the "transcendentalism", and to understand and learn this concept.

Emerson, the founder of Transcendentalism, and the author of Lake Wadden was Henry. David. Thoreau was one of the exponents of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Transcendentalism was born under the influence of the European Romantic movement, and it has its own unique views on nature, religion, philosophy, etc. They believe that every natural phenomenon is a symbol of some spiritual phenomenon, that nature itself is God's revelation to man, and that man can obtain the truth from nature that guides his actions only by relying on his own "intuition". They opposed religious ignorance, advocated the development of individuality, and advocated the supremacy of the spirit, which was in fact the embodiment of the spirit of romanticism.

Transcendentalism has a unique affection for nature, regards the natural world as the stage of human activities, and believes that people should return to nature to find the meaning of life.

If a person cannot believe that every day there is an earlier and more sacred hour of dawn than he has blasphemed, he must have been disappointed in life, and is groping for a way to descend into darkness. After a night's rest in the life of the senses, the soul of man, or rather, the faculties of man, is re-energized once a day, and his endowment can test what noble life he can accomplish. Everything that can be commemorated, I dare say, took place in the atmosphere of dawn time.

The Vedas say, "All knowledge wakes up at dawn." "Poetry and art, the most beautiful and memorable things in human behavior, all start from this moment.

**"Waldner Lake" is the author Thoreau's own personal life, is a kind of transcendentalist experience, which is very in line with my requirements for life, everything is based on nature, close to nature, from nature to attract nutrition, to obtain wisdom, to guide life, perhaps this also coincides with the Taoist thought of Lao Tzu in China.

There are three main ideas of transcendentalism. First, the Transcendentalists emphasize the spiritual, or superspiritual, as the most important element of existence in the universe. Superspirit is an all-encompassing, omnipresent, good and evil force, which is the origin of all things and the belonging of all things, and it exists in man and nature.

Second, the transcendentalists emphasize the importance of the individual. They believe that the individual is the most important part of society, and that social innovation can only be achieved through the cultivation and perfection of the individual. Therefore, the primary responsibility of human beings is self-improvement, not the deliberate pursuit of wealth and wealth.

The ideal person is the one who relies on himself. Third, the transcendentalists look at nature with a new light, and see the natural world as a symbol of the superspirit or God. In their view, nature is more than just matter.

It has life, the Spirit of God is in it, it is the garment of the super-spirit. As a result, it has a healthy tonic effect on the human mind. Transcendentalism advocates a return to nature and acceptance of its influence in order to become spiritually perfect.

The natural implication of this view is that everything in nature is symbolic, and the external world is the embodiment of the spiritual world.