1) Transcendentalists talks about individuals relation with nature . What is nature for you ? Share your views.
An Introduction to Nature
The best way to get at Emerson is to come at him all at once in the ninety five pages of his little book called nature issued anonymously in 1836 which contains the compressed totality of all that he would subsequently patiently reveal . Revelation rather than. Logic was the instrument used by Emerson to delve toword truth. It was not his intention to create a philosophy or to codify thought. He distrusted logical argument as man made and therefore indequated because they are imperfect as man is imperfect . Neither philosopher nor conventional moralist Emerson it cannot be said too often was first and last an artist who attempted to create a vision of the world and man's place in it. What is Nature which lies all about us? What is the refulgent beauty of Nature that draw man out of himself to quietness and calm or to resolution ? What are the mysteries of Nature that inspired men resolution ? What are the mysteries of Nature that inspired men resolve by conquering time or space through the discovery of such things as the telegraph or the harnessing of waterpower and steam or rocketing to the moon?
Not a philosopher Emerson presented himself simply as a person who related what he had experienced he revealed the world as it was revealed to him as he tried to see it fresh. Hr wrote as a realist writes. He had been there he has seen . He knew . His essays then are not to be read as logical demonstration but as revelations . What truth is in them is not explicit but implicit .they are to be read that is to sayas poetry is read not so much for what they say suggest of what cannot be said.
His sentences shimmer with meanings beyond logical expression. The essay Nature for example had been described as not so much directly addressing the mind as using the indirection of nature itself upon the soul the sunrise the haze of autumn the winter starlight seem interlocutors the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry a high discourse the voice of the landscape as from his own breathe it is nature communing with the seer.
The second idea in the little book concern the sufficiency of nature . Nature is the gigantic shadow of God cast on the senses. Nature is the image the analogue of God . The beneficiary the Beauty the mystery of nature are like the Beauty the beneficence and the mystery of God . It is a means by which God reveals his plan to man whatan sees in nature however is only partial truth a shadow of the final truth that is there to be reveled when man can find it . Moses and Socrates Ptolemy and Copernicus Newton and today he might Einstein and many another each has approximated truth but the truth of one is discarded for the truth of the next which will in its turn be discarded when another person pushes farther the boundaries of truth . The truth of which nature is thus the shadow has always existed in the mind of God . Man's quest is to discover and described what portion of it he can . His materials are in nature but the truth against which he may measure what he finds is in God who is within man.
(2) Transcrndentalism is an American philosophy that influenced American literature at length. Can you find any Indian regional literature or philosophy came up with such similar thought ?
Transcrndentalism
19th century movment of writers and philosopher in new England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation the innate goodness of humanity and the supmacy of insight over logic and experienced for the revelation of the deepest truths . German Transcrndentalism platonism and neoplatonism the Indian and Chinese scriptures and the writing of such mystics as Emanuel swrdemnorg and Jakob bohme were sources to which the new England Transcrndentalism turned in their search for a liberating philosophy.
Transcrndentalism An American philosophy.
Transcrndentalism is very formal word that describes a very simple idea . people men and women equally have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that transcends or goes beyond what they can see hear taste touch or feel.
This knowledge comes through intuition and imagination not through logic or the sense . People can trust themselves to be their own authority on what is right .a Transcrndentalist is a person who accept these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.
The individual most closely associated with this new way of thinking were connected loosely through a group known as the transcendental club which met in the . Boston home of George Ripley . Their chief publication was a periodical called the dial edited by Margret fuller a political radical and feminist whose book women or the nineteenth century was among the most famous of its time . The club had many extraordinary thinker but accorded the leadership positions to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Emerson was a Harvard educated essayist and lecture and is recognized as our first truly American thinker . In his most famous essay the American Scholar.
