Transcendentalism is a religious and philosophical movement that was developed during the late 1820s and 1830s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of spirituality and, in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity S...
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theory that emphasizes that which transcends perception
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• (n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. • (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought ... [6 related articles]
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(from the article `dualism`) In philosophy, dualism is often identified with the doctrine of transcendence—that there is a separate realm or being `above` and `beyond` the world, ... [7 related articles]
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Philosophy inaugurated in the 18th century by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. As opposed to metaphysics in the traditional sense, transcendental philosophy is concerned with the conditions of...
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Transcendentalism is an American philosophical, religious, and literary movement roughly equivalent
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Religious New England movement between 1840 and 1860. This movement emphasised the importance of individual conscience, and the value of intuition in matters of moral guidence.
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1. The philosophical disposition to look for truth within oneself, as against the conventions of culture or society. 2. A form of realist metaphysical thought, esp. in Plato, which sees Truth beyond the phenomenal, material world. 3. A part of Kantian philosophy in which real knowledge is achievable when one can transcend mere empiricism and ascert...
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Transcendentalism is a movement that derived its name from the German philosophy of Schelling, and signified the philosophy of those who deemed the objective realities of the world to be best studied by interrogating the subjective consciousness. The school of the transcendentalists prevailed in New England, especially at Concord, Massachusetts, in...
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n] - any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
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transcendental philosophy noun any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
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Any doctrine giving emphasis to the transcendent or transcendental (q.v.). Originally, a convenient synonym for the 'transcendental philosophy' (q.v.) of Kant and Schelling. By extension, post-Kantian idealism. Any idealistic philosophy positing the immanence of the ideal or spiritual in sensuous experience. The philosophy of the Absolute (q.v.),.....
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Philosophy inaugurated in the 18th century by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. As opposed to metaphysics in the traditional sense, transcendental philosophy is concerned with the conditions of possibility of experience, rather than the nature of being. It seeks to show the necessary structure of our `point of view` on the world. Intr...
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