transcendentalism
- transcendental character, thought, or language.
- Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.
Origin of transcendentalism
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Contemporary Examples of transcendentalism
That was sadly even true for Margaret Fuller, one of the leading lights of transcendentalism.
Historical Examples of transcendentalism
Bless your soul, that is Carlyle-ism, not transcendentalism.
Idealism and Transcendentalism have carried no conviction to them.
Essays Towards a Theory of KnowledgeAlexander Philip
Its ethics are too weak, its theories too unsound, its transcendentalism is too thin.
British SocialismJ. Ellis Barker
There is nothing in Transcendentalism to prevent intolerance.
Liberty In The Nineteenth CenturyFrederic May Holland
Transcendentalism has become the foundation of liberal Christianity.
Liberty In The Nineteenth CenturyFrederic May Holland
transcendentalism
- any system of philosophy, esp that of Kant, holding that the key to knowledge of the nature of reality lies in the critical examination of the processes of reason on which depends the nature of experience
- any system of philosophy, esp that of Emerson, that emphasizes intuition as a means to knowledge or the importance of the search for the divine
- vague philosophical speculation
- the state of being transcendental
- something, such as thought or language, that is transcendental
Word Origin and History for transcendentalism
1803, in reference to Kant, later to Schelling; 1842 in reference to the New England religio-philosophical movement; from transcendental + -ism.
transcendentalism
A movement in nineteenth-century American literature and thought. It called on people to view the objects in the world as small versions of the whole universe and to trust their individual intuitions. The two most noted American transcendentalists were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.