transcendentalism
IPA: trænsʌndˈɛnʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- 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 which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
- 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.
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Examples of "transcendentalism" in Sentences
- She was an advocate of transcendentalism.
- Have you read the article on Transcendentalism
- Dana also criticized the Transcendentalism movement.
- It was the era of "transcendentalism" in New England, of
- He was central to the development of Transcendentalism in the 1830s.
- The philosophy known as transcendentalism left its impress on much of the work of this age.
- With Ibsen it is a petty anger, an anger against nature, and it leads to a transcendentalism which is empty and outside nature.
- These positions, whether viewed as varieties of "transcendentalism" or "monism," include the possibility for attaining forms of pure transcendence.
- I must say one word about another kind of transcendentalism which was pushing its way into favour in Roman society at this time -- I mean astrology.
- He connects the expiring Calvinism of the old Puritan theocracy with what is called the transcendentalism embodied in the writings of Emerson and other leaders of young America.
- But sometime in the spring, not long after we'd finished a lesson about some strange thing called "transcendentalism," and started reading Shakespeare, I kicked my best friend Crary's chair.
- This I can believe, and it brings me to Emerson's transcendentalism, which is set forth in the Sphinx -- "Deep Love lieth under these pictures of Time, which fade in the light of their meaning sublime."
- This is not the place to enter upon such a subject as “Tasawwuf,” or Sufyism; that singular reaction from arid Moslem realism and materialism, that immense development of gnostic and Neo-platonic transcendentalism which is found only germinating in the Jewish and Christian creeds.
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