AP Language and Composition: Transcendentalism Flashcards
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| 3706774861 | What two movements come before Transcendentalism? | Romanticism and realism | 0 | |
| 3706774862 | What philosopher did the ideas of transcendentalism go against? | Locke | 1 | |
| 3706774863 | Translation of what scriptures led to questions about the authority of christian dogma | Hindu and Buddhist | 2 | |
| 3706774864 | Who does the term "transcendental" come from? | Immanuel Kant | 3 | |
| 3706774865 | What must one do to find God, Truth, Wisdom, Beauty, and Peace? | Transcend | 4 | |
| 3706774866 | What are the key elements to transcending? | Intuition and Nature | 5 | |
| 3706774867 | What allegory by Plato influenced transcendentalism? | The Allegory of the Cave | 6 | |
| 3706774868 | Allegory of the cave | -we are men chained in front of a fire who only see a shadow of the reality that passes behind us -we do not see objects, only shadows created by the objects -we can achieve a higher reality if we emerge from the cave | 7 | |
| 3706774869 | Forms are... | Perfect, timeless, and unchanging | 8 | |
| 3706774870 | Transcendentalists believed that people could see their _________ to sense what was true, right, and beautiful | Intuition | 9 | |
| 3706774871 | How was intuition seen? | As innately good and essential to uniting with the oversoul | 10 | |
| 3706774872 | Who developed the concept of the oversoul? | Emerson | 11 | |
| 3706774873 | How does one unite with the oversoul? | By contemplating nature and simplifying life | 12 | |
| 3706774874 | What is encouraged since society and its institutions are viewed as corrupt? | Civil disobedience | 13 | |
| 3706774875 | What are two more keys to transcending? | Self- reliance and civil disoedience | 14 | |
| 3706774876 | Who is the founder of American Transcendentalism? | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 15 | |
| 3706774877 | Describe the life of Emerson | -eighth generation Unitarian minister -entered Harvard at 14 -wife died from tb -resigned from the ministry -settled in Concord, Mass -remarried, had several children, lived off of inheritance and lecture money | 16 | |
| 3706774878 | Name three books that Emerson wrote | Nature, Self Reliance, and the American Scholar | 17 | |
| 3706774879 | What anatomic structure did Emerson compare himself to? | An eyeball (transparent) | 18 | |
| 3706774880 | What writer called Thoreau "ugly as sin"? | Hawthorne | 19 | |
| 3706774881 | Describe the life of Henry David Thoreau | -Harvard graduate from concord, mass -long neck beard as protection against tb (he died from it) -student, friend, disciple of emerson -20 volumes of writing -abolitionist -resigned being a school teacher because he didn't believe in corporal punishment -worked on and off in a pencil factory -set fire to Walden woods -brother dies from lockjaw -built an isolated, simple hut, lived there for 2 years and two months, and recorded his life during this time -spent a night in jail due to refusing to pay a poll tax. Inspired "civil disobedience" | 20 | |
| 3706774882 | Describe the transcendental club | -group of free thinkers who met at Emerson's home to discuss literature, philosophy, and politics -published the dial -concerned with progressive issues | 21 | |
| 3706774883 | Describe the life of Bronson Alcott | -opened a school based on Transcendental beliefs -refused to pay a poll tax due to slavery -attempted (and failed) to run a commune where upward growing plants would grow | 22 | |
| 3706774884 | Describe the life of Elizabeth Peabody | -Hawthorne's sister in law -Alcott's teaching assistant -studied early education in Germany and created the first kindergarten -believed that play is essential to childhood -ran a bookstore where women discussed femenist issues | 23 |