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  • Essay / How Relevant is Transcendentalism - 975

    In The American Scholar, Emerson (1834) argued that man should see nature as the opposite of the soul and that nature is the measure for man of his success, his self-knowledge and his evolution. he also said that "for young minds, everything is individual, everything is self-evident." Emerson therefore seemed to define the equality that America must acquire to be independent of Europe. To this, Jefferson (quoted in Gottesman and Parker 1979) declared that “all men are created equal, and are endowed with rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” However, Jefferson means equal by possessing a moral sense which is not only the highest faculty of man but one which is equal to all men and which enables people to know the rights of man and the purpose of human virtue. Emerson in The American Scholar (1834) said "little by little he discovered how to join two things and see in them one nature, then three, then three thousand and so on...". In this section it defines as saying that every man is individual and man has the right to equality in society. As Hole (2001) observes, Americans also differ in the extent to which they believe in the ideal, as stated in their Declaration of Independence, that “all men are created equal.” Although they sometimes violate this ideal in their daily lives, especially in matters of race relations, Americans deeply believe that, in a fundamental way, all humans (at least all Americans) are of equal value and that no one is not born superior to anyone. other. So, it is better to know yourself by studying nature and find equality to be won