Transcendentalists

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Transcendentalists

Transcendentalism For the transcendentalist, the "I" transcends the corporeal and yet nature is the embodiment of the transcendence and, or, the means to achieving transcendence, which gives way to a belief that the physical "I" is at the root of all transcendence. In practical terms, the transcendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic (though it is doubtful that either Kant or Emerson would have couched it in those terms) and determines value as …showed first 75 words of 2258 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2258 total…Jonathan Edwards' sublime book of nature." History Today, July 1996: pp. 29-37. 7. Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, History of American Thought and Culture. Madison, WS: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Page 9 8. Wilson, Edward O. "The Two Hypotheses of Human Meaning." The Humanist September 1999: pp. 30-40. 9. Zimmerman, Lee. "An eye for an I: Emerson and some "true" poems of Robinson Jeffers, William Everson, Robert Penn Warren, and Adrienne Rich." Contemporary Literature December 1992: pp. 645-720.

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