higher reality than human reasoning. Transcendental ideals are highlighted through their tenants to live a life of individuality, simplicity, self-confidence, manual labor, and a life close to nature. In addition, the more modern motion picture, Dead Poets Society, further reflects this transcendental philosophy. Throughout the film, Mr. Keating, an English teacher, educates his students of ideals very similar to that of the Transcendentalists, and his students completely buy in to his teachings through…
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