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Definition
==History==
==History==
Transcendentalism has its roots in european ideals, specifically those of Germanic origin.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ok3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4|last1=Frothingham|first1=Octavius Brooks|title=Transcendentalism in New England: A History}}</ref> Kant, Fichte, and Jacobi stand as the major early figures.
Transcendentalism has its roots in European ideals, specifically those of Germanic origin.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ok3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4|last1=Frothingham|first1=Octavius Brooks|title=Transcendentalism in New England: A History}}</ref> Kant, Fichte, and Jacobi stand as the major early figures.
==Definition==
Transcendentalists argue that human nature is comprised of three primary aspects: animal, rational, and spiritual. Emerson explains:
{{quotation|Strictly speaking, then, Transcendentalism is the recognition of this third attribute of humanity, and the inquiry must be into the history of this - the arguments that support it, its effect upon the world, on literature, philosophy, the arts, criticism, religion, and on man in his political social and moral relations.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|last1=Emerson|first1=Ralph Waldo|title=Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses|date=1886|pages=5-8}}</ref>}}
==See Also==
==See Also==