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transcendentalist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | philosopher |
| Derivation | transcendentalism |
Examples of transcendentalist
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For a look at transcendentalist life, read Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
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It's an old, romantic, in fact transcendentalist faith.
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We will learn that, like us, he believes in the power of the individual, just as our transcendentalist fathers taught us.
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He worked at a Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842.
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It does, however, say that he was the leader of the transcendentalist movement, which was a romantic movement.
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The family is desperately poor because Alcott's father, Bronson Alcott, a transcendentalist philosopher, considered it a breach of his beliefs to work.
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Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.
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An autograph manuscript by Henry David Thoreau, the great 19th century transcendentalist philosopher, was open to a page featuring an unpretentious drawing of a feather.
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In 1992, the smart and charismatic McCandless marched into the Alaskan bush desiring nothing more than to disconnect from civilization utterly, a transcendentalist Garbo wanting to be alone.
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- Advocate of transcendentalism
- (transcendentalism) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
- Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Transcendentalist is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism. The lecture was read at the Masonic Temple in Boston, Massachusetts in January 1842.
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called American transcendentalism to distinguish it from other uses of the word transcendental. ...
- (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 ...
- (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. ...
- (Transcendentalism) A broad, philosophical movement in New England during the Romantic era (peaking between 1835 and 1845). It stressed the role of divinity in nature and the individual's intuition, and exalted feeling over reason.
- (1840-1855) -Transcendentalism was an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. ...
