A Transcendentalist Education

A Transcendentalist education commences with a thorough purge of immature thinking; credulity and ethnocentric presumption must go.

This purge is accomplished by means of a ruthless katastrophe: seizing that rare freedom that is available only to human beings by "turning against" inherited expectations of life and thought. See Peter Trawny, Freedom To Fail, 58.

The New Transcendentalist finds in Wittgenstein and Heidegger what Original Transcendentalists like Emerson found in Goethe and Kant. In their resistance to positivism and materialism, Original Transcendentalists embraced various forms of Romantic idealism. The New Transcendentalist resists all of those superannuated modes.