In the his classic essay on Nature (1836), The Ralph Waldo Emerson establishes the concept – and subsequent movement – of transcendence: from the perception of reality to the enjoyment of beauty, nature satisfies all of man's basic needs. In addition, it allows him to see it, provided he embraces the divine element that permeates it everywhere, as the "Universal Being" that connects everything and makes the world logical and understandable.
THE CREATOR
A leading figure in the transcendental movement in the United States (although he himself never adopted the term), the Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) He quickly moved away from the religious and social ideas of his contemporaries, placing the independence of the individual at the center of his philosophy and proposing a pantheistic concept that brought man closer to his natural environment. Emerson evolved into most influential thinker of the 19th century in America, influencing literary figures such as Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau and giving over 1500 lectures. Nature, the essay that established him, It was first published anonymously in 1836 and later again in 1849.
