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Definitions for transcendentalism
ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tlˌɪz əm, -sən-tran·scen·den·tal·ism

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. transcendentalism, transcendental philosophynoun

    any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

Wiktionary

  1. transcendentalismnoun

    The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

  2. transcendentalismnoun

    Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

  3. transcendentalismnoun

    A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.

  4. transcendentalismnoun

    A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Wikipedia

  1. Transcendentalism

    Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven. Transcendentalists saw physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities. Transcendentalism is one of the first philosophical currents that emerged in the United States; it is therefore a key early point in the history of American philosophy. Emphasizing subjective intuition over objective empiricism, its adherents believe that individuals are capable of generating completely original insights with little attention and deference to past masters. It arose as a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time. The doctrine of the Unitarian church as taught at Harvard Divinity School was closely related. Transcendentalism emerged from "English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schleiermacher, the skepticism of David Hume", and the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant and German idealism. Perry Miller and Arthur Versluis regard Emanuel Swedenborg and Jakob Böhme as pervasive influences on transcendentalism. It was also strongly influenced by Hindu texts on philosophy of the mind and spirituality, especially the Upanishads.

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  1. transcendentalism

    Transcendentalism is a philosophical, literary, religious, and cultural movement that originated in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It emphasizes individual intuition, self-reliance, and the inherent goodness of nature and people. Transcendentalists believe in the transcendence of the human spirit over materialism and social conventions. They also hold the idea that individuals can directly experience the divine or absolute truth through personal intuition, bypassing the need for formal religious institutions. Notable transcendentalists include Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Transcendentalismnoun

    the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge

  2. Transcendentalismnoun

    ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction

Wikidata

  1. Transcendentalism

    Transcendentalism was 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 to the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature. Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. They had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community could be formed.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Transcendentalism

    name now principally employed to denote the great doctrine of Kant and his school, that there are principles of a priori derivation, that is, antecedent to experience, that are regulative and constitutive of not only our thoughts but our very perceptions, and the operation of which is antecedent to and sovereign over all our mental processes; which principles are denominated the categories of thought; the name is also employed to characterise every system which grounds itself on a belief in a supernatural of which the natural is but the embodiment and manifestation. See Natural Supernaturalism.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of transcendentalism in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of transcendentalism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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