The Transcendentalists

        The transcendentalists are people who believe everything is a reflection of divine soul. It’s a religious group which they believe individualism outweigh authority and rationality. They believed that people should act upon their intuitive rather than rule of the society. It is these ideas that allow some of the greatest leader in the history of mankind to be created. Ghandi, for example, is deeply influenced by the transcendentalists. Believing that India has the right to be independent, Ghandi rose up against the British control using peaceful protest despite the risk of death penalty. Also, Marther Luther King was also deeply influenced by the transcendentalists. Believing with his intuitive that all man, including African American, should be equal, he led a successful campaign in the civil rights movement, which eventually allows African American to gain suffrage right. I personally disagree with some of the transcendentalist’s ideas. It is really hard for me to believe that everything in the world has a divine purpose or soul. I don’t believe that there will be soul in paper, water bottle or my computer. I only appreciate their ideas about how we should use our intuitive over rationality. Although rationality is also very important, some time the right thing to do is not written in the guidebook, that we need to use our intuition to guide a path to the future.