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I was learning about the Transcendentalist movement in history and english this year and I was wondering if anyone else thought it sounded very similar to Bruce Lee's jeet kune do philosophies. Transcendentalist, headed by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, basically encouraged individualism and self-expression as opposed to conformism. Bruce Lee's jeet kune do had the main tenet that eventually all the martial arts would be melded into one "human martial art" and that the martial artist at the highest level would be expressing this "human martial art" in a way that pertained to himself as an individual. Any thoughts, comments, constructive criticisms?
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I think its important to remember that many of Bruce Lee's philosophies were not actually Bruce Lee's philosophies.
Before, during, and long after his Philosophy Major at UCW, Bruce Lee's work was consistently nothing more than a passionate articulation of his influences. Zen, Taoism, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Plato....you will find most of his concepts are borrowed from other text. There's nothing wrong with that, its just important to keep his philosophical contribution in context.
Therefore in education when you come across a branch of thought that sounds very similar to a philosophy from JKD, it was more likely an influence as opposed to an emulation. -
I like how you described Thoreau as a "whiny shit"
I always thought he was a little whiny since Walden Pond wasn't even wilderness, it was on Ralph Waldo Emerson's property or something but he made it seem like he was reliving the lifestyle of prehistoric man 
I like how you brought up the key point that the essence of Bruce was examination and open-mindedness to find the most efficient way humanity could do things as opposed to simply bashing on traditional things 
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You've lost me there boys. I studied Economics, Political History, and Sociology.
The first one taught me how we get screwed over, the second how we have always been screwed over, and the third how we all accept being screwed over.
As the philosopher D.Leary once said - "Life sucks, wear a helmet. Next.."Comment
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