Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States.A core belief of transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature. Adherents believe that society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, and they have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.Transcendentalism emphasizes subjective intuition over objective empiricism. Adherents believe that individuals are capable of generating completely original insights with little attention and deference to past masters.What do you guys think of Transcendentalism and their beliefs?
Why do you want to know what other people believe?
>>19994144Because I love syncretism.
B E L I E F STranscendentalists are strong believers in the power of the individual. It focuses primarily on personal freedom. Their beliefs are closely linked with those of the Romantics, but differ by an attempt to embrace or, at least, to not oppose the empiricism of science.TRANSCENDENTAL KNOWLEDGETranscendentalists desire to ground their religion and philosophy in principles not based on, or falsifiable by, physical experience, but rather those that derive from the inner spiritual or mental essence of the human.INDIVIDUALISMTranscendentalists believe that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community can form. Even with this necessary individuality, transcendentalists also believe that all people possess a piece of the "Over-soul" (God). Because the Over-soul is one, this unites all people as one being.INDIAN RELIGIONSTranscendentalism has been influenced by Indian religions.IDEALISMTranscendentalists differ in their interpretations of the practical aims of will. Some adherents link it with utopian social change, but others consider it an exclusively individualist and idealist project.
>>19993949>>19996039Considering we live in an era of utter ‘Decadence’ this sounds like a positive change.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_movement
>>19996053>The movement was characterized by self-disgust, sickness at the world, general skepticism, delight in perversion and employment of crude humor and a belief in the superiority of human creativity over logic and the natural world.
>>19996102>a decadent perspective which favors madness and irrationality, graphic violence, frank pessimism about cultural institutions, and a disregard for ethicsWelcome to 2017
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>>19996128Look no further than Instagram, /b for or dark portions of tumblr for displays of modern Decadence. Gore blogs are a great rabbit hole. You’d be surprise just how many teens are into this.
>We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
>>19993949What a breath of fresh air you’ve blown into /x/, OP. It would be nice if more of the people who roam these parts of 4chan took to learning about philosophy.
>>19996146Do you think that exposure to graphic violence leads to desensitization to committing acts of violence in person or providing acceptable outlets for anti-social impulses?>>19996155Thank you, /x/ needs to mature. I think I will make more threads like this on a regular basis.
>>19996176It likely does, it also feeds negative energy and could likely provide more open targets for demonic/negative entities to invade our realm. Well it’s already happened to be truthful. Youth are angry and full of agnst, seeing this kind of ultra violence produces desisitization. In a way it’s like a occult ritual mixed with a group therapy session via social media, the image is the sacrifice, the spectators being the audience, follow base. Some edgelord on tumblr post a gore image with the caption ‘I hate my life’ hundreds of followers reblog and comment a phrase of equal self apathy cause they relate to that negative emotion. Boom chain reaction of Decadence, people profit of the misery of others. It’s just now intensified through technology.Our society is very sick in a ill sense and moral sense, this is Not how things are supposed to be. I’m telling you this with every fiber of truth. The righteous and truly wise are losing the battle in this realm HARD..
>>19996176The thing is these kids are simply misguided and lacking in proper role models, I’ve spoken to many and seen a few turn arounds. They’re simply are just more enablers than saviors currently..
>>19996176What happens on the internet spills into our reality more than you may think. Which is why it’s inportant to be aware of what kind of energy is being distributed.
>>19996155Sure but I don't browse a paranormal board to read about philosophy and religion and that's all there is on /x/ currently hopefully religion can get it's own containment board.
>>19993949T R A N S C E N D E N T A L I S Mhttp://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu>T R A N S C E N D E N T A L I S Mhttp://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu>>19996224>The thing is these kids are simply misguided and lacking in proper role modelsYep, especially when these kids go searching for role models in our current pop-culture. Utter decadence.
>>19996219Isn’t it a curious thing in our day and age that entertainment seems to be synonymous with violence? Now, one could argue that this has been the case since the dawn of human kind but imagine the spectacle of the colisseum now available in every home and to every person. Everyone can indulge in the horrors of graphic violence without feelings of shame or guilt since we assure ourselves shortly after that it is merely a depiction and that no person nor animal was harmed during the making of any given show or movie.
>>19996241The supernatural includes all that cannot be explained by the laws of nature, including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts, gods, or other types of spirits and other non-material beings, or to things beyond nature. So isn't /x/ the perfect place to discuss spirituality?
>>19996249>”imagine the spectacle of the colisseum now available in every home and to every person. Everyone can indulge in the horrors of graphic violence without feelings of shame or guilt”Perfect anology
>>19996241There is nothing more unsettling than the questions posed by religion and philosophy along with their implications.
>>19996260M E T A P H Y S I C S
>>19996272N I G G E R S
>>19996283Go away shill..
BRAHMA by RALPH WALDO EMERSONIf the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.The strong gods pine for my abode,And pine in vain the sacred Seven;But thou, meek lover of the good!Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
URIELIt fell in the ancient periodsWhich the brooding soul surveys,Or ever the wild Time coined itselfInto calendar months and days.This was the lapse of Uriel,Which in Paradise befell.Once, among the Pleiads walking,Seyd overheard the young gods talking;And the treason, too long pent,To his ears was evident.The young deities discussedLaws of form, and meter just,Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams,What subsisteth, and what seems.One, with low tones that decide,And doubt and reverend use defied,With a look that solved the sphere,And stirred the devils everywhere,Gave his sentiment divineAgainst the being of a line."Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,A shudder ran around the sky;The stern old war-gods shook their heads,The seraphs frowned from myrtle-beds;Seemed to the holy festivalThe rash word boded ill to all;The balance-beam of Fate was bent;The bounds of good and ill were rent;Strong Hades could not keep his own,But all slid to confusion.A sad self-knowledge, withering, fellOn the beauty of Uriel;In heaven once eminent, the godWithdrew, that hour, into his cloud;Whether doomed to long gyrationIn the sea of generation,Or by knowledge grown too brightTo hit the nerve of feebler sight.Straightway, a forgetting windStole over the celestial kind,And their lips the secret kept,If in ashes the fire-seed slept.But now and then, truth-speaking thingsShamed the angels' veiling wings;And, shrilling from the solar course,Or from fruit of chemic force,Procession of a soul in matter,Or the speeding change of water,Or out of the good of evil born,Came Uriel's voice of cherub scorn,And a blush tinged the upper sky,And the gods shook, they knew not why.
>>19996267I find most of it to be too outdated and irrelevant to be unsettling, especially any of the demonic aspects
>>19996300Thank you for that
Great thread, /x/.It's a pity we don't get threads like these anymore.
Bumpdeserves it
>>19996249>The word decadence, which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to refer to a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, or skill at governing among the members of the elite of a very large social structure, such as an empire or nation state. By extension, it may refer to a decline in art, literature, science, technology, and work ethics, or (very loosely) to self-indulgent behaviour.>Usage of the term frequently implies moral censure, or an acceptance of the idea, met with throughout the world since ancient times, that such declines are objectively observable and that they inevitably precede the destruction of the society in question.
>Free in this world as the birds in the air, disengaged from every kind of chains, those who practice yoga gather in Brahma the certain fruits of their works. Depend upon it that, rude and careless as I am, I would fain practice the yoga faithfully. The yogi, absorbed in contemplation, contributes in his degree to creation; he breathes a divine perfume, he hears wonderful things. Divine forms traverse him without tearing him, and united to the nature which is proper to him, he goes, he acts as animating original matter. To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a yogi.—Henry David ThoreauThe original neckbeard>>19997219Seems to be very closely related to the term degeneracy. >>19996339>most of it to be too outdated and irrelevantHow so? Many philosophies and religions have survived the test of time.
Bump for wisdom and philosophical flourishment.
i tried to make a thread like this a couple weeks ago haha, heres my contribution
>>19997549I thoughrouly enjoyed the last paragraph.
Transcendentalism is closely related to Unitarianism. Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Unitarian Christians, therefore, believe that Jesus was inspired by God in his moral teachings, and he is a savior, but he was a normal human being and not a deity or God incarnate.Transcendentalism was not a rejection of Unitarianism; rather, it developed as an organic consequence of the Unitarian emphasis on free conscience and the value of intellectual reason. The transcendentalists were not content with the sobriety, mildness, and calm rationalism of Unitarianism. Instead, they longed for a more intense spiritual experience. Thus, transcendentalism was not born as a counter-movement to Unitarianism, but as a parallel movement to the very ideas introduced by the Unitarians.>>19997549Nice contribution, I find that transcendentalism contains great personal virtues.
Bump because the shit post brigade is in full force today on /x
>The mountain sat upon the plain/In his eternal chair>His observation omnifold/His inquest everywhere.--Emily Dickinson, "The mountain sat upon the plain
Heck what a coincidence, the development of transcendentalism right about the same era of Chinese immigrants importation in the US.I'd be in higher spheres too if I was off my tits on opiates all the while.
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The transcendentalist tenent which states that one ought to contemplate and enter into communion with nature is one that is interesting. Does anyone else not only hear but feel how loud the world is? Were inundated by sounds and devices clamoring for our attention. The modern world seems to be completely devoid of silence. Silence is required for contemplation.
>>19999561Interesting observation >>20000502Yes true, Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature.
Three main currents contributed to this uniquely American school of thought: neo-Platonism and the belief in an ideal state of existence; British romanticism, with its emphasis on individualism; and the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.From neo-Platonism — as nineteenth-century educated Americans understood it — came the belief in the primacy of intellectual thinking over material reality, an idea originated by the Greek philosopher Plato. Through a series of dramatic dialogues, Plato argues that there are ideal forms existing in an absolute reality; in the material world in which we live, all objects and phenomena are imperfect representations of these ideals. Our entire lives are spent trying to perfect ourselves and our environment in hopes of attaining an ideal existence. Agreeing with Plato, philosophers like Emerson and his fellow transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott go so far as to say that ideas are the only reality: The tangible world exists solely as a manifestation of pure ideas.GO HERE FOR A THREAD ABOUT NEOPLATONISM>>20002251
Bump, because good thread.
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>>19993949>the inherent goodness of people
>>19997652>Thoreauly
>>20006084Transcendentalism declared meaning in everything, and all meaning was good, part of and connected by divine plan. Emerson refuted evil, insisting it was not an entity in itself, but simply the absence of good. If good is introduced, evil dissipates. One ray of light penetrates darkness. According to the Transcendentalists, everyone has the power to "transcend" the apparent confusion and chaos of the world and see order in nature's design. All on earth have the divine "spark" within and thus all are part of the whole. This philosophy led to an optimistic emphasis on individualism and the value of the individual over society. To "transcend" society one must first be able to look past and beyond it. One must follow intuition and not conform to contrary social decree. Society encourages, even demands conformity and dependence. In the aptly titled "Self-Reliance," Emerson urges his reader to "trust thyself."
