American transcendentalism

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c. 1836 – 1860 · Americas · origin: Concord, Massachusetts

Truth is grasped by intuition, in unity with nature, without intermediaries

Key ideas

• The divine is present in nature and in every person
• Self-reliance instead of deference to authority
• Simple living in nature (Thoreau's Walden)
• Civil disobedience to unjust laws

Key thinkers

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (founder) — American philosopher and poet, 1803–1882

Grew out of

• German idealism c. 1781 – 1850 · Europe

Meanwhile elsewhere

• Confucianism Asia
• Buddhist philosophy Asia
• Taoism Asia
• Nyaya Asia
• Madhyamaka Asia
• Yogachara Asia
• Chan and Zen Asia
• Advaita Vedanta Asia
• Kalam Middle East
• Neo-Confucianism Asia
• Utilitarianism Europe
• Positivism Europe
• Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
• Existentialism Europe
• Marxism Europe

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