transcendentalism

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[edit] Noun

transcendentalism

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th Century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

[edit] Related terms

• philosophy
• religion
• transcendental
• transcendentalist

[edit] Translations

• Croatian: transcendentalizam hr(hr) m.
• German: Transzendentalismus de(de) m.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia: Transcendentalism
• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology