Help me understand transcendetalism.

circumlocution2
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:47:33 +0000

The primary belief on which it was based was that there is an ultimate truth that transcends all, which everyone can find in their own way.

You probably shouldn’t use the word you’re defining in your explanation of the word. The part of your post that you didn’t quote better explained it imo.



uhhh… the definition above pretty much matches my lit text book (w/ transcend in it)

I second that you should read some Transcendentalist works (at least excerpts)-- try Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” or Thoreau’s “Walden”