After reading and dissecting each one of the Transcendentalism tenets, these are how I feel on some of them.
First off, the interesting ones really caught my eye as they made me realize and think hard about the many readings and experiences I’ve had on this sort of topic/issue. One of them were that transcendentalists said how “power is to be obtained by defying fate or predestination”, or simply choosing your fate. I always thought that either a god/or some religious figure would choose our fate, which is what the Puritans thought too as they were always working hard to predestinate to heaven. What I got out of all of this, was that transcendentalists are “often not religious, but spiritual.” Another tenet I thought was interesting, was that “transcendentalism is a very optimistic philosophy in that it assumes that all people and things want to exist in their ideal state.” So I thought this kind of related to a friend I know, who always …show more content…
Lastly, another interesting tenet, I liked was that every “death was never to be feared, ...the soul merely passes back to the Oversoul”, which kind of makes me believe that just because you die, you will still meet with the oversoul, so possibly you …show more content…
Such as the individual reform where “conscience can affect an entire community.” I believe that no one person can change or affect people without a group, as reminiscing through the generations of history, I don’t believe anyone that worked by themselves could change/reform something without a group backing them up. Similarly, the tenet that talks about “great men and women point us in the direction of truth, but we must find the truth ourselves” I also disagree, because I feel like these examples could help influence us to find the truth, as I don’t think we can just find the truth by