Transcendentalism Intuition

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Transcendentalism

Quote: "The work is not for us to finish, but neither are we to take no part in it"

This quote shows the transcendentalist component of morality. The transcendentalist believed that morality was the differences between right and wrong and they believed that when someone did something wrong, they weren't a bad person, they just had an absence of good and knowledge in them.
Morality is shown in this quote by talking about work and our obligations to do that work. There are also a lot of morals in the background of this quote, the work isn't for us to do but is it right for us to not do it?
This quote also shows the transcendentalist component of intuition. Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. Intuition takes place in this quote when it talks about "but …show more content…

American society today is all about living life to the fullest and unlocking your full potential in life. Society tell us teenagers that if we do good in school we can get into a good college and get a good degree, and there are so many options so that you can do anything and be anything. This quote is saying exactly that, live your life to the fullest and be the owner of your life, you don’t have to conform to what others are doing. Living life to the fullest to me means that you can’t always do what people tell you to do, sometimes you have to be a nonconformist and do what you want. Living life to the fullest is finding your niche in life and doing everything you possibly can to satisfy it. For example I really want to go to Stanford, society tells me that I can do anything if I put my mind to it, even though Stanford’s acceptance rate is the lowest in the country. I’m not going to give up I’m going to live my life to the fullest and try my best to get in. Another example would be to just go out and do things you would never do, like a bucket list but you’re not dying

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