Emerson
Ideal Religion
Ideal Society
Criticisms of the Church/ Bonus
Final Jeopardy
100
What literary movement was Emerson, as well as Thoreau, involved in?
Transcendentalism
100
Emerson thought that man should hold themselves to the standards of this man.
Jesus
100
What are needed to coexist for the formation of an ideal society?
Religions
100
Who did the church raise above man?
Jesus
200
What school did Emerson attend?
Harvard
200
Emerson believed that religion should be married to this, which shares its name with one of Beethoven's famous odes.
joy
200
What did Emerson hope that this speech would do to the social order?
Disrupt the Social order
200
What did the church fail to recognize moral nature as a provider of?
laws
300
In what cemetery is Emerson buried (it shares its name with one of Diedrich Knickerbocker's stories)?
Sleep Hallow cemetry
300
Emerson also believed that religion should be married to this, which shares its name with a Disney movie involving talking furniture and a rose.
Beauty
300
What is the one concept that we talked about in our large group discussion that could potentially prevent an ideal society from arising?
The existence of an ideal religion.
300
In Emerson's quote on the PowerPoint, what should "stand forevermore"?
A temple
400
When did Emerson deliver "The Divinity School Address"? (Month, Day, and year)
July 15, 1838
400
Emerson believed that religion should be married to this, which both Max Planck and Einstein were pioneers of.
science
400
What did Emerson want to push the world toward?
A transcendentalist society.
400
The Church praised Jesus more than promoting this?
Doctrine
500
At what event did Emerson Deliver "The Divinity School Address"?
Harvard Graduation
500
What two things did Emerson believe were needed to balance with God in order to have an ideal religion?
Man and Nature
500
Name one of the two books by George Orwell that have been compared or contrasted to "The Divinity School Address" on the grounds of an ideal society.
What are "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
500
What did Emerson criticize the church for failing to return to?
Its original excellence
500
The one time Emerson met in person with Abraham Lincoln, he was accompanied by this man, a senator from Massachusetts who was involved in a spectacle caused by this man's denouncing of the Act which essentially repealed the Missouri compromise.
Who is Charles Sumner.
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