Thursday, February 23, 2012
Transcendentalism
I am unsure about if I could be considered a Transcendentalist. I agree with the part about having my individual thoughts and judgements. I do not agree with them coming from nature or a superior being. That would contradict the ideas coming from thyself. If a transcendentalist is deep with nature, they probably oppose materialistic things. I love materialistic things. I don't want to live in the good 'ole backroads. I want to live in a house with a TV and an endless supply of Nutella... away from the forest. Even though I don't agree with Emerson that, "He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature int he present, above time," I do agree with the ideas regaurding good will.
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How can you make ideas, if you never even ponder the ideas of others? And are ideas ever really our own, or are they hidden thoughts percolating from the influences of others? Can you ever really be independent of the viewpoints of other people? How can we be "heedless of the riches [of ideas] that surround" us, according to Emerson?
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