دراسات فنية
Volume 10, Numéro 1, Pages 48-57
1970-01-01

Purity And The Self-made Man In Emerson's Transcendentalist Philosophy

Authors : Mengouchi Meryem .

Abstract

The philosophy of Transcendentalism by Ralph Waldo Emerson preaches intuition, humanism, non-conformity, originality of thought and goodness. It is a philosophy that is based on human spontaneity and innocence, which stipulates that man in total wilderness and isolation is able to reach the highest level of purity, to connect with God , yet society is a source of evil and corruption because it deprives individuals from being their true selves. This philosophy also presented the concept of self-reliance which later became significant for the American individual in his search for identity. Emerson clarifies that all these concepts are related by the one feature of non-conformity and purity of the soul.

Keywords

Emerson ; Transcendentalism ; self-reliance