transcendentalism

IPA: trænsʌndˈɛnʌɫɪzʌm

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.

Examples of "transcendentalism" in Sentences

It was the era of "transcendentalism" in New England, of
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.