American philosophical and literary movement of the 1830s-1860s centered on Concord, Massachusetts, holding that reality is fundamentally spiritual, that individuals can access transcendent truth through intuition, and that society and its conventions corrupt natural virtue.
Developed a distinctly American philosophy combining German Idealism, Romanticism, and Unitarian theology; emphasized self-reliance, the divinity of nature, the reform of society, and the primacy of individual intuition over institutional authority.
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