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Transcendentalism — • The terms transcendent and transcendental have antithetical reference to experience or the empirical order Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Transcendentalism Transcendentalism … Catholic encyclopedia
transcendentalism — TRANSCENDENTALÍSM s.n. 1. Concepţie filozofică elaborată de Kant şi bazată pe ideea că formele apriorice ale conştiinţei precedă experienţa şi constituie condiţiile existenţei ei. 2. Curent filozofic caracterizat prin religiozitate panteistă şi… … Dicționar Român
Transcendentalism — Tran scen*den tal*ism, n. [Cf. F. transcendantalisme, G. transcendentalismus.] 1. (Kantian Philos.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. [1913 Webster] Note: As… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transcendentalism — [tran΄sen dent′ liz΄əm] n. [< 18th c. Ger transcendentalismus: see TRANSCENDENTAL & ISM] 1. any of various philosophies that propose to discover the nature of reality by investigating the process of thought rather than the objects of sense… … English World dictionary
transcendentalism — (n.) 1803, in reference to Kant, later to Schelling; 1842 in reference to the New England religio philosophical movement; from TRANSCENDENTAL (Cf. transcendental) + ISM (Cf. ism) … Etymology dictionary
Transcendentalism — This article is about the 19th century American movement. For other uses, see Transcendence (disambiguation). Transcendentalism is a group of ideas in literature and philosophy that developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the New England region of… … Wikipedia
Transcendentalism — a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical and is only realized through a knowledgeable intuitive awareness that is… … Mini philosophy glossary
transcendentalism — transcendentalist, n., adj. /tran sen den tl iz euhm, seuhn /, n. 1. transcendental character, thought, or language. 2. Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be… … Universalium
transcendentalism — See New England transcendentalism … Philosophy dictionary
TRANSCENDENTALISM — growing out of UNITARIANISM in the 1830s it became one of the nineteenth centuries most influential religious movements in America. Associated with EMERSON and THOREAU with intellectual roots in German ROMANTICISM and writers like GOETHE,… … Concise dictionary of Religion
Transcendentalism — a 19th century idealistic philosophical and social movement which taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. → transcendentalism … English new terms dictionary
