Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.

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Challenge the text
Restate Emersons basic opinion about society.
Identify and evaluate the evidence Emerson uses
to support that opinion.
Provide examples from everyday life to support
and refute Emersons opinion of society.

• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the
  manhood of every one of its members. Society is a
  joint-stock company in which the members agree
  for the better securing of his bread to each
  shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture
  of the eater. The virtue in most request is
  conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It
  loves not realities and creators, but names and
  customs.

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Transcendentalism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau

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Transcendentalism

• An intellectual movement of the 19th century.
  Transcendentalists were interested in the human
  spirit and thought that an exploration of nature
  helped people understand universal truths.

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Transcendentalism

• Believed the individual was at the center of the
  universe, more powerful than any institution
  whether political or religious (384).

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Transcendentalism

• Transcendentalism lasted on 10 years and only
  produced two major works Emersons Nature, and
  Thoreaus Walden.

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Transcendentalism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson was considered the father
  of Transcendentalism in many ways.
• Struggled with his faith so much, that he began
  questioning his own beliefs and establishing his
  own philosophy
• As he struggled with his own faith, he struggled
  with the notion that machines might in the future
  replace people and the concerned him

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Nature

• What does this work reveal to you about
  Transcendentalism?

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Transcendentalism

• Henry David Thoreau was Emersons protégé and
  followed in his footsteps by building a rough
  cottage in the woods at Walden Pond where he went
  to live alone in harmony with nature. He also
  expressed important ideas about change in
  government control with Civil Disobedience. He
  stressed the importance of the people as
  individuals being able to govern themselves.
• Abolitionist

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Civil Disobedience

• Packet analysis
• Read and discuss with your group
• Share
• Submit

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Answer yes/no questions and turn in before you
leave

• Yay! Study for your test tomorrow. I especially
  suggest you look over the facts for each author