Question

What is transcendentalism?

Answer 1

answer is A

Transcendentalism is the belief that a person's intuition will help her reach spiritual understanding.

Transcendentalism is an idea and movement which developed in late 1820s and 1830s in the United States. It was inspired by the European romanticism and the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The main point of the transcendentalist was the advantage of subjective intuition over the objective empirical research.

The main representatives of this movement were: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Amos Bronson Alcott.