This essay will be focused on the main concepts and their applications to present life of Transcendentalism, an influential movement of the XIX century, represented mainly by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. As a movement, Transcendentalism was essentially based on the neo Platonists ideas, the eastern mystical beliefs and the German idealist philosophy. Its focus was on consciousness, on the intuition over the matter and the intellect, on the inherent goodness of man, …showed first 75 words of 1957 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1957 total…is applicable today, they could see ahead, they described society as a capitalist enterprise, which is still a true and valid description since its values have not changed very much from Emerson and Thoreau's time. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston, 1836. 2. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. The Transcendentalist. 1842. From Lectures, published as part of Nature. 3. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Self-reliance and other essays. Dover Thrift Editions. 1993. 4. THOREAU, Henry David. Walden and other writings. Random house, Inc., New York. 2000