awesome video! My friend and I started a Transcendentalism Philosophy Club at school just to spread and share the philosophy, and we will be sharing this video for others to get a good idea on where it came from, and what it is:)
As a teenager, I immersed myself fully and completely with transcendentalism. Now that I’m grown, i realized that it, like many other movements, borrows from Christianity in the sense that the logos defines and connects us all. But it replaces the “logos” with the worship of nature or the universe (a sort of pantheism), and places the individual above everything.
Thorough went into Walden to redefine life for himself not to outcast into isolation of the wilderness for sake of survival but a feeling of self reliance that you can easily get in nature
I feel like America harbors still the transcendentalist spirit in many bands and cultural traditions like the rodeo but also the national parks, while in Europe it's not so present. We see nature mostly as a commodity, a place to relax and re-energize, but not a place where one can retreat and think. Only recently I noticed some of my friends doing this, taking trips to Ireland and The Highlands, yet this feeling of being connected to nature is lost and being sought after, unlike where Americans seem to have preserved nature as part of their culture. I find this amazingly beautiful and it is reflected in your art.
This is a fantastic comment, great observation. As exploitative as people think American capitalism is, we have some of the most preserved wilderness, out west, in the world
@@trevorlahey2488 Well, as this video points out, it took thinkers to point out that nature was worth preserving. We have to thank the transcendentalist movement for sure, but also presidents like the Roosevelts and famous photographers like Ansel Adams whose work eventually led to registering the domain now known as Yosemite Park as a national park. If it weren't for them, the modern kind of capitalism we have today would still mow down some of these fine and vast places the USA provides. If they aren't careful, the same can happen to South America. Money talks. I still stand with my natural point though, Western Europe is so crowded that nature serves as camping sites so to think you'd meet any actual predators is outrageous because they've been extinct for centuries! Where I live, in Belgium, our only national park has a highway running down through the middle and most people use the park to either walk their dogs or go biking. It has roads and even playgrounds for children, it's also a national park because it's made out of terrils, which are hills that were formed with mining waste, so this park is actually an artificial park. In the middle of this artificial park is a giant lake with a luxurious spa where you can stay at starting from 500eu per weekend! If you want to find real nature, you have to fly over to Georgia or Budapest for some mountains, but anything in the West is modernized and only feigns being nature. It's completely absurd.
As a first generation immigrant that spent their first 3 years in the US in Boston but now lives in the midwest: I've always deeply held these values without the ability to articulate their definition. How validating it is to hear others feel a similar way
What the high school student at 8:00 doesn't realize is that one of the main ideas about transcendentalism is that you need to find your role as an individual, and one good thing about high school is that you can choose classes that are related to what you would dedicate your life to. For example, I want to be an engineer, so taking more aggressive math classes, physics, and chemistry makes sense because they are NECESSARY for an engineer. In other words, if you know what you NEED to do to fulfill your individual needs and actually do it, you don't have to worry about what everyone else thinks of you. You've already proved your identity, so you don't need to follow someone else's. (Imitation is suicide.) So, I wouldn't see it as colleges are forcing you to do good in school, but you do need to prove who you are and what you are made of to not only universities, but to everyone in society.
To fulfill your *desires. noone "needs" to be an engineer. We need food, water, shelter from elements, health care, security and companions. Those are the basic needs. All she was saying is that there are contrary and opposing pressures.
O que vais encontrar em muitos livros e algures, nos jornais, nas famílias, TVs ou revistas... São misérias, doenças, injustiças, desejos, paixões, pobrezas, maldades, carências e ilusões materialistas... Porque Amor Puro, Caridade, Misericórdia, Perdão, a Fé, Solidão, Justiça e Sabedoria... Você encontra sempre, porque mora, sem nenhuma dúvida, só no Coração de quem nasce transcendentalista...
Excellent! I appreciate the idea that young people are being interested in this home grown philosophy. Could it be a literary movement like romanticism? Is it American Buddhism? Well, I'm not sure but it is the basis of an American philosophy. Interesting how Emerson was a Unitarian minister.
Transcendentalism is more influenced by HINDUISM! Read Thoreau and Emerson then you will know how Hinduism is important for Transcendentalism to stand!
The guy who went to Alaska did what he desired to do, you cant say it was "an extreme that shouldn't exist, he was on his own path like we each are, I dont know if he should be judged as wrong so much.
awesome video! My friend and I started a Transcendentalism Philosophy Club at school just to spread and share the philosophy, and we will be sharing this video for others to get a good idea on where it came from, and what it is:)
As a teenager, I immersed myself fully and completely with transcendentalism. Now that I’m grown, i realized that it, like many other movements, borrows from Christianity in the sense that the logos defines and connects us all. But it replaces the “logos” with the worship of nature or the universe (a sort of pantheism), and places the individual above everything.
Thank you Alexandra, I'm not sure of the origins of this video. Thank you your friend Andy Lee Graham
Thorough went into Walden to redefine life for himself not to outcast into isolation of the wilderness for sake of survival but a feeling of self reliance that you can easily get in nature
I feel like America harbors still the transcendentalist spirit in many bands and cultural traditions like the rodeo but also the national parks, while in Europe it's not so present. We see nature mostly as a commodity, a place to relax and re-energize, but not a place where one can retreat and think. Only recently I noticed some of my friends doing this, taking trips to Ireland and The Highlands, yet this feeling of being connected to nature is lost and being sought after, unlike where Americans seem to have preserved nature as part of their culture. I find this amazingly beautiful and it is reflected in your art.
This is a fantastic comment, great observation. As exploitative as people think American capitalism is, we have some of the most preserved wilderness, out west, in the world
@@trevorlahey2488 Well, as this video points out, it took thinkers to point out that nature was worth preserving. We have to thank the transcendentalist movement for sure, but also presidents like the Roosevelts and famous photographers like Ansel Adams whose work eventually led to registering the domain now known as Yosemite Park as a national park. If it weren't for them, the modern kind of capitalism we have today would still mow down some of these fine and vast places the USA provides. If they aren't careful, the same can happen to South America. Money talks.
I still stand with my natural point though, Western Europe is so crowded that nature serves as camping sites so to think you'd meet any actual predators is outrageous because they've been extinct for centuries!
Where I live, in Belgium, our only national park has a highway running down through the middle and most people use the park to either walk their dogs or go biking. It has roads and even playgrounds for children, it's also a national park because it's made out of terrils, which are hills that were formed with mining waste, so this park is actually an artificial park. In the middle of this artificial park is a giant lake with a luxurious spa where you can stay at starting from 500eu per weekend!
If you want to find real nature, you have to fly over to Georgia or Budapest for some mountains, but anything in the West is modernized and only feigns being nature. It's completely absurd.
As a first generation immigrant that spent their first 3 years in the US in Boston but now lives in the midwest: I've always deeply held these values without the ability to articulate their definition. How validating it is to hear others feel a similar way
You should create a Kick Start account to create a more full length, higher production value documentary. Great start!
So what are these human beings doing today to help
What the high school student at 8:00 doesn't realize is that one of the main ideas about transcendentalism is that you need to find your role as an individual, and one good thing about high school is that you can choose classes that are related to what you would dedicate your life to. For example, I want to be an engineer, so taking more aggressive math classes, physics, and chemistry makes sense because they are NECESSARY for an engineer. In other words, if you know what you NEED to do to fulfill your individual needs and actually do it, you don't have to worry about what everyone else thinks of you. You've already proved your identity, so you don't need to follow someone else's. (Imitation is suicide.) So, I wouldn't see it as colleges are forcing you to do good in school, but you do need to prove who you are and what you are made of to not only universities, but to everyone in society.
To fulfill your *desires.
noone "needs" to be an engineer. We need food, water, shelter from elements, health care, security and companions. Those are the basic needs.
All she was saying is that there are contrary and opposing pressures.
I have to write about this for my English class and I care so little about Transcendentalism that I am considering just not doing it.
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Every man is his own star
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Spectacular!
Great speakers, like someone else said this should be transformed into a long version documentary
Thanks for the breath of fresh air :)
O que vais encontrar em muitos livros e algures, nos jornais, nas famílias, TVs ou revistas...
São misérias, doenças, injustiças, desejos, paixões, pobrezas, maldades, carências e ilusões materialistas...
Porque Amor Puro, Caridade, Misericórdia, Perdão, a Fé, Solidão, Justiça e Sabedoria...
Você encontra sempre, porque mora, sem nenhuma dúvida, só no Coração de quem nasce transcendentalista...
Ms gilly made us watch this, I fell asleep 💀💀💀 10/10 vid tho 👌😳🥶
This is a great video! Thank you!
interesting, we had to watch this for English class, very interesting
Went swimming here as a boy
Well done.
Excellent! I appreciate the idea that young people are being interested in this home grown philosophy. Could it be a literary movement like romanticism? Is it American Buddhism? Well, I'm not sure but it is the basis of an American philosophy. Interesting how Emerson was a Unitarian minister.
+redbrian3655 Good-oh, redbrian! I have a page on Fecebook, "The New Transcendentalist" and please join us and speak your mind and soul.
+redbrian3655 Well, it'd be nice to have you, Brian.
+North Wind Apparently, Zen Buddhism is very similar to transcendentalism in some ways, like the spirituality aspect.
Transcendentalism is more influenced by HINDUISM! Read Thoreau and Emerson then you will know how Hinduism is important for Transcendentalism to stand!
The guy who went to Alaska did what he desired to do, you cant say it was "an extreme that shouldn't exist, he was on his own path like we each are, I dont know if he should be judged as wrong so much.
The mistake Candless made was eating the wrong plant. The path he was on was perfect for him.
The S trade here in The United States is disgusting these men are talking about men in the past that were heroes. What are these men doing today
go jumbos!
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