Trancendentalism_Vs._Anti-trancendentalism

Trancendentalism Vs. Anti-trancendentalism My view of life is a mixture of transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism. I think that is how most people view their lives. You can’t be happy and bright all the time like Emerson and Thoreau pretend to be, and you can’t always be dark and pessimistic like Melville and Hawthorne. There has to be a balance between both ways of thinking. I agree with Emerson and Thoreau on the idea of that we have to experience things on our own. We shouldn’t learn from other people that is not an effective way of learning. You have to experience things for yourself in life. If you are always learning how to do things from other people and really never have taught yourself how to do something, you can never be sure of yourself. You don’t know your true self by learning from other people. Emerson says that “imitation is suicide”, and it is. Nobody should go on living life if they aren’t experiencing things for themselves. People shouldn’t live their lives just copying other people. I try to do my own thing and experience things for myself not just following everybody else. friends, friendships, things, know, people, think, really, life, emerson, says, never, about, yourself, true, real, nature, just, go, experience, don’t, thing, should, person, own, learning, intuition, world, views, thoreau, sure, shouldn’t, self, out, need, myself