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The Transcendental Club was a group of New England authors, philosophers, socialists, politicians and intellectuals of the early-to-mid-19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism. Overview [ edit ]
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
Hedge wrote: "There was no club in the strict sense ... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women", earning the nickname "the brotherhood of the 'Like-Minded'". [27] Beginning in 1839, Ripley edited Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature: fourteen volumes of translations meant to demonstrate the breadth of Transcendental thoughts ...
Transcendental humanism in philosophy considers humans as simultaneously the originator of meaning, and subject to a larger ultimate truth that exists beyond the human realm (transcendence). [1] The philosophy suggests that the humanistic approach is guided by "accuracy, truth, discovery, and objectivity" [ 1 ] that transcends or exists apart ...
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Transcendental Students (TS) was a student activist and anarchist group created in 1969 at NYU in New York City. Its motto and philosophy was "insurrection through happiness". [1] Transcendental Students differed from the more nationally well-known student group, Students for a Democratic Society also based in New York City, both in philosophy ...
Fuller agreed with the transcendental concern for the psychological well-being of the individual, [147] though she was never comfortable being labeled a transcendentalist. [148] Even so, she wrote, if being labeled a transcendentalist means "that I have an active mind frequently busy with large topics I hope it is so". [149]
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