1. What is your religion and how do you view religion? My religion is Roman Catholic. For me, religion is an institution in human society that guides people with their belief and faith in God and living a life in the likes of Jesus. It is a guide which teaches not only about faith and about moral and spiritual development but traditions and culture as well. For me, there is no religion that can save people from sin. Having strong commitment with your Church or religion is different from having
Following Edmund Gettier's paper “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” epistemologists were left with critical questions about the adequacy of justified true belief as the definition of knowledge. Gettier illustrated scenarios where it seemed counterintuitive to say a person had knowledge, yet the person seemed to have a justified true belief. To move past the “Gettier Problem,” it appears that some additional criterion to justified true belief must be posited which avoids running into such troubling
Transcendentalism was a system developed in 1836 that was a reaction to rationalism. However, transcendentalism is more than just a social and philosophical movement; it is the light that directs one through the tunnel of reality. Although an idea of the past, transcendentalism is still extremely relevant, especially in the twenty-first century. It can teach the youths of this generation that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and being independent and self reliant can open one’s mind to
society by means of civil disobedience, and looking at the spiritual value of everything. I internally believe in the ideas of transcendentalism, yet know that I could never embrace them due to society. This is because it is impossible to live a transcendentalist lifestyle and still function within society, which makes my attempts of accepting the ideas of transcendentalism futile.
Romanticism and Transcendentalism made an impact all around the world. Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and was at its peak around the 1800-1850s. Romanticism was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution and was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and the scientific rationalization of nature. Transcendentalism was a religious,
Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is a philosophy where personal experience is enhanced by themes of nature and deity while defying society and materialism, rather than political or scientific evidence of logic. Transcendentalist uses nature to educate. Admiring Transcendentalist ideas was a young adventurer named Christopher McCandless, the main character in Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild. McCandless ventures throughout North America, following three main Transcendentalist beliefs such
Transcendentalism – “a belief in a higher knowledge than achieved by human reason.” is a philosophical and social movement beginning in the 1830’s, thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were the focal points of the movement. Some of their writings such as The Dial, Nature, and Walden are all transcendentalist pieces that were revolutionary at their time of release, and can be related to Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne embodies transcendentalism by her nonconformist
In Nature To better understand Transcendentalism, I referred back to a Unitarian Minister named William Ellery Channing. The text mentions the opposition Transcendentalists had with Unitarianism, such as “cold rationality and materialism”, but they both shared the belief that the “power of human intuition” was at the core of being close to God (Belasco and Johnson 730). Transcendentalists needed to relate to God, or be at one with Him, in a private, personal setting. They believed in “the spiritual
In the article “Emerson’s Transcendentalism” by Regis Michaud, poses the following debate of whether or not Ralph Waldo Emerson was a true Transcendentalist and the leader of Transcendentalism in New England. Emerson was born in Boston on May 25, 1803 as the son of a Unitarian minister and the second of five brothers. After his wife’s death in 1829, he became skeptical of his religion and felt the need to resign as a junior pastor of the Unitarian church (Baym). At this time is when much of his disillusionment
Who was correct about what is means to be “human:” the Transcendentalists or the Dark Romantics? Ralph Waldo, Walt Whitman, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe are some of the many famous authors that have written the Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism books that many people know today. In the late 18th Centuries and in the early 19th Centuries, is when Romanticism became recognized as a type of literature. I believe that the Transcendentalists are correct about what it means to be a human