Today in class we picked up right where we left off which was learning about one of the five major tenets of transcendentalism which was self - Reliance. Before i get to talk about self reliance i want to talk about what we opened up class with. The opening question was what is transidentalism and what we said in class is the it is being able to only rely on yourself and to do what you feel is right on the inside not what you think is right, we also said it what romanticism times 100 if that helps you get a better idea. And a really god quote that shows transidentalism is this "I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts if life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived."(Henry David Thoreau). This shows it because when it says "I went to the woods because i wish to live deliberately" it is saying that he went to the woods to live because that is what he felt is right. We then learned about the Moral Compass and compass means to show direction therefore the puritans the definition of right and wrong came straight from the bible so that showed them direction. An example was when Thoreau went to jail because he didn't pay toll taxes since he followed his moral compass and did what he felt inside was right.
They also believed that people were born good and society ruins them. The next tenet is free thaught which shows individuality and to believe what is true to you. The tenet after that is confidence, this means have confidence in who you are and to stay strong and believe in yourself and your ideas. The one after that is the Importance of Nature and that nature is pure when not ruined by humans and the thought that civilization is evil to them.They also believed in oversoul which is the unity between man, god and nature. This picture below shows that someone could have made this and could have lived in it by themselves without technology and that would be a great example of transidentalism.
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