transcendental idealism

British  

noun

1. philosophy the Kantian doctrine that reality consists not of appearances, but of some other order of being whose existence can be inferred from the nature of human reason

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Example Sentences

But Kant himself called his philosophy "transcendental idealism," by no means because he deals therein with moral ideals, but on quite other grounds, as Starcke will remember.

From Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy by Lewis, Austin

But Schelling's "system of transcendental idealism" was the first great philosophical affirmation of Romanticism and of conscious Neo-platonism reborn in Aesthetic.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

The Aupanishadas have thus advanced from the pantheism of the orthodox ritualists to a transcendental idealism.

From Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Barnett, Lionel D.

This assumption is held in common by naturalistic psychology, by transcendental idealism, and by Fechner, 184.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

If we permit ourselves to be deceived by the illusion of transcendental idealism, we shall find that neither nature nor freedom exists.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow