Journal 18: Rational or Transcendental

Both rationalists and transcendentalists believe in one almighty God that created the world. However, the two different group have different ways of interpreting the world and the world's event and different ways to view the world. The Transcendentalists believed that all things in life is a mere reflection of an actual higher world in which God has created and resides. This means that they view the nature, the world without human civilization influences as a close representation of where God creates and the more we live our lives in the nature without artificial influence the closer we are to understand and be with God. This is why most transcendentalists resides in the countryside; they give up their properties, and sell their belongings and lives at the countryside to be close to nature. The rationalists on the other hand are people who believes that God created a world and sets a set of rules and then watch as the world unfolds. They believe that we could use reasoning and logics to figure out the rules set by God and by doing that we can be closer to God. They don't go together because transcendentalists believe in instinct and feeling over logic and reasoning.