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transcendentalism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | transcendental philosophy |
| Type of | philosophy |
| Derivation | transcendental, transcendentalist |
Examples of transcendentalism
transcendentalism
Part of Emerson-only a part-is a bright theology of pep, a half-time transcendentalism.
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Transcendentalism was in many aspects the first notable American intellectual movement.
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He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism.
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Transcendentalism was the reaction, made distinctive by its borrowings from European Romanticism.
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On the surface, a history of transcendentalism hardly seems especially electrifying or contemporary.
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The piece begins with a musical portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the father of American transcendentalism.
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The American incarnation of Romanticism was transcendentalism and it stands as a major American innovation.
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There was another element in Emerson, curiously combined with transcendentalism, namely, his love and respect for Nature.
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The waggish scherzo pictures author Nathaniel Hawthorne much in keeping with his casual approach to transcendentalism.
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- Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
- (transcendentalist) advocate of transcendentalism
- 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 ...
- (Transcendentalists) Those who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind which transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge, or that derived from the sense organs, and even that derived from ordinary mentation. ...
- (Transcendentalists) Transcendalists included many brilliant philosophers, writers, poets lecturers and essayists. These included such intellectuals as Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. ...
- A philosophy of nature that holds that everything is an approximation to an ideal standard or type. It was popular in the early decades of the nineteenth century, and derives from Platonism and Goethe, the latter tradition known in Germany as Naturphilosophie. ...
- (Latin trans + ascendere, "to climb beyond"): Transcendentalism is an American philosophical, religious, and literary movement roughly equivalent to the Romantic movement in England (see Romanticism). ...
- A nineteenth-century movement developed in New England and expounded by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 82) and Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 62). It maintains that beyond our material world of experience is an ideal spiritual reality that can be grasped intuitively.
- Noun: a philosophy that emphasizes the a priori conditions of knowledge and experience or the unknowable character of ultimate reality or that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality
