Ralph Waldo Emersons Transcendentalist Philosophy and Its Influence on

Ralph Waldo Emersons Transcendentalist Philosophy and Its Influence on Marg aret Fullers Feminist Philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leading thinker in the American Transcendentalist question, who first proposed many of the movements most influential ideas regarding the relation between the human forefront and the realism. He believed each person to possess a soul, a forefinger within the self to uniquely perceive and understand the world, and grasp the conglomerate relationships between all things Emersons universe was infinitely knowable, and his ideal, independent soul should be in a evoke of constant consideration and reevaluation of the world around him. Emersons nonion of the chief end of life was the development and development of ones soul, and the maintenance of a constant state of learning and changing, of always becoming rather than simply being. He viewed order of magnitude as a fundamentally oppressive phenomenon, as it imprints itself upon ones soul and po ssesses the dictatorial capacity to hinder the souls critical independent thought to Emerson, society was a conspiracy against the manhood of all(prenominal) one of its members The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist, (Self-Reliance 1162). Self-reliance, the title of Emersons 1841 essay, advocates independent thought as a human ideal, above and beyond the confines of traditional, unquestioning society. Emersonian Transcendentalist thought influenced many other emerging figures, including the feminist thinker Margaret Fuller, who believed society, males and females alike, to be suffering from a lack of gender equality. Fuller took t... ...of minds, gains the capability of self-reliance. Emerson depicts his homeostatic society as governed by the tyranny of the fickle majority the sour faces of the multitude, like their syrupy faces , have no deep cause,disguise no god, but are put on and off as the wind blows, and a newspaper directs. Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college, (Self-Reliance 1164). This is paradoxical, in that the American people should ideally be free, but are instead manipulated by the tyrannical masses. If all Americans are governed by an oppressive majority, it seems that nobody is even so free. It would, therefore, follow, that some institutional or governmental reform should be necessity before anybody, man or woman, can be free bountiful to become self-reliant and, through Emersonian ideals, change society internally.