Transcendentalism

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Transcendentalism is a 19th-century American philosophical and literary movement that emphasized individual intuition, spiritual insight, and the inherent goodness of people and nature in opposition to materialism and institutional authority.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century movement
American philosophical movement
intellectual movement
literary movement
philosophical movement
religious movement
associatedOrganization Transcendental Club
associatedPublication The Dial
associatedWork Civil Disobedience
Nature
surface form: Nature (essay)

Self-Reliance
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
surface form: Walden

Woman in the Nineteenth Century
centeredIn Boston, Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts
coreBelief immanence of the divine in nature
inherent goodness of nature
inherent goodness of people
moral idealism
nonconformity
primacy of individual intuition
self-reliance
spiritual insight over empirical evidence
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
emphasizes direct relationship with the divine
education and intellectual growth
individual conscience
nature as a source of truth
personal spiritual experience
social reform
hasKeyConcept civil disobedience
correspondence between nature and spirit
inner light
the Over-Soul
hasKeyFigure Bronson Alcott
Elizabeth Peabody
surface form: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

George Ripley
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
Orestes Brownson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Parker
influenced American civil rights activism
American environmental thought
American individualism
American literature
Gandhian nonviolent resistance
abolitionism
social reform movements
women's rights movement
influencedBy Eastern religions
German idealism
surface form: German Idealism

Hindu philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Platonism
Romanticism
Unitarianism
language English
mainRegion New England
opposes institutional authority
materialism
orthodox Calvinism
strict rationalism
periodOfActivity 1830s
1840s

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Henry Hedge movement Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: American Transcendentalism
Amos movement Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos religiousOrPhilosophicalView Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Amos Bronson Alcott
this entity surface form: Christian transcendentalism
Alcott associatedWithMovement Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism
Alcott movement Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversations with Children on the Gospels associatedWith Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: Transcendentalist movement
Concord Days literaryMovement Transcendentalism
Sonnets and Canzonets literaryMovement Transcendentalism
Sonnets and Canzonets hasAuthorAssociatedMovement Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism
Temple School inspiredBy Transcendentalism
Temple School associatedWithMovement Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: Transcendentalist movement
Fruitlands utopian community inspiredBy Transcendentalism
Fruitlands utopian community movement Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: American Transcendentalism
Sarah Margaret Fuller movement Transcendentalism
Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, Massachusetts knownFor Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: American Transcendentalist movement
Sophia Hawthorne socialCircle Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalist milieu
Substance and Shadow philosophicalSchool Transcendentalism
Swedenborgianism influenced Transcendentalism
Lydia Dodge Cabot Parker movement Transcendentalism
James Freeman Clarke movement Transcendentalism
James Freeman Clarke participantIn Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: American Transcendentalist movement
Ellery Channing movement Transcendentalism
Ellery Channing participantIn Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: American Transcendentalist movement
Thomas Wentworth Higginson movement Transcendentalism
Sarah movement Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah participantIn Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Sarah Margaret Fuller
this entity surface form: Transcendentalist movement
Men and Women hasPart Transcendentalism
Sophia Willard Dana Ripley movement Transcendentalism
Sophia Willard Dana Ripley ideology Transcendentalism
Sophia Willard Dana Ripley associatedWith Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: American Transcendentalist movement
Emerson movement Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Child’s Reminiscence literaryMovement Transcendentalism
Concord knownFor Transcendentalism
subject surface form: Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Transcendentalist movement
Fruitlands Museum associatedWithMovement Transcendentalism
Walden Woods Project associatedWith Transcendentalism
American poetry hasMovement Transcendentalism
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn movement Transcendentalism
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn participantIn Transcendentalism
this entity surface form: Transcendentalist movement
Charles A. Dana movement Transcendentalism