transcendentalism
English
Etymology
Noun
transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)
- The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
- Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
- 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.
- 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.
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Translations
the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge
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ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction
a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality
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a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century
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See also
transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology
