How Transcendentalism Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Every teenager in America knows the transcendentalists were a handful of goofy 19th century philosophers who were into walking in the woods, but they were also so much more. Anyone who focuses on the beauty and the good in the world can’t be too wrong.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Jerome Rowling is here with us somehow some way.
0:49.7	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:55.4	Trans-inditilism.
0:56.6	Man were you into transcendentalism when you were a teenager?
0:59.6	Of course I was.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:02.1	In college mainly as an English major is when I kind of got into it.
1:06.0	Okay. I discovered these guys at age like 14 and was super into them for a while.
1:13.0	Couldn't make heads or tails of a lot of the stuff they were talking about but I just
1:17.0	something about it just hit me just right. So I think I caught like the ethos of it but not
1:22.1	necessarily the intellectual aspect of it.
1:25.6	But I was into them big time.
1:26.9	They actually led me away from church.
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