transcendentalist
IPA: trænsʌndˈɛnʌɫɪst
noun
- One who believes in transcendentalism.
- Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
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Examples of "transcendentalist" in Sentences
- He was the father of the Transcendentalist Frederick Henry Hedge.
- Sounds too much like some form of transcendentalist maya structure.
- He is recognized as a founding member of the Transcendentalist Club.
- He is an important contemporary figure in the neo transcendentalist movement.
- I always wondered if you considered yourself a transcendentalist or a transient mentalist.
- The famous Unitarian and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden wrote, "Things do not change; we change."
- It should be noted that in this period the term "transcendentalist" is extended beyond its usual meaning and loosely applied to those thinkers who
- From the radical, transcendentalist village life of nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, to the horrors of the Civil War hospitals in Washington, D.C.,
- Miss Lu lu Bett, Ms. Gale's novels became more spiritual, creating a world where social ills could be solved through a kind of transcendentalist enlightenment.
- This middle zone of power and mastery is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_ of the new civilization.
- But Wilson is wrong in thinking that Aquinas must therefore be an ethical "transcendentalist" who believes that moral knowledge comes only from some supernatural source beyond the natural experience of human beings.
- Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize with her novel "March," inspired by the absent father in "Little Women" and by Louisa May's real father, Bronson Alcott, a fascinating figure Brooks called the "most transcendent transcendentalist of them all."
- You are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy, making, if I mistake not, an entirely new era in respect of matter, but unlike the works of genius of the 'transcendentalist' movement (which are so obscurely and abominably and inaccessibly written), a pure classic in point of form.