... rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self-all knowledge, therefore, begins with self-knowledge. This is similar to Aristotle's dictum "know thyself"; - transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature ... as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic; - the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization - this depends upon the reconciliation of two universal psychological...

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