a 3. Transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery full of signs nature is symbolic 4 The belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self realization -this depends upon the reconciliation of two universa psychological tendencies◼ 3. Transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic. ◼ 4. The belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self￾realization - this depends upon the reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: