What is transcendentalism? a. the belief that a person's intuition will her reach spiritual understanding b. a period in history in which people rejected notions of love and beauty c. the idea that the human race is destined to become great through technology d. a movement in which people turned to books and rejected the beauty of nature?

answer is A

Transcendentalism is the belief that a person's intuition will help her reach spiritual understanding.

Transcendentalism is an idea and movement which developed in late 1820s and 1830s in the United States. It was inspired by the European romanticism and the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The main point of the transcendentalist was the advantage of subjective intuition over the objective empirical research.

The main representatives of this movement were: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Amos Bronson Alcott.