| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the effect combat experience during the U.S. Civil War had on the philosophic thought of four U.S. transcendentalists and soldiers: William Batchelder Greene, Charles Anderson Dana, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and James Kendall Hosmer. Specifically, the author is concerned with the effects of the war on the men's attachment to the idealism of U.S. philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, or Emersonian idealism. The author concludes that the individualism espoused by these men was altered more by urbanization and industrialization than the war. |
