Daily Log

Thursday, December 15

Students turned in the vocabulary assignment with words from Walden.

We reviewed and extended our understanding of Transcendentalist beliefs in the active (even creative) nature of perception, looking at Emerson's explanation of Transcendental forms in the mind as asserted by Immanuel Kant. We also looked at analogs to Transcendentalism today, and watched HungryBear9562's viral "Double Rainbow" video, and at his answer to his own question: "Oh my God, what does this mean?" ("The rainbow was the Universe or Spirit flowing through me . . ." -- echoing Emerson's "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.")