Definition of Transcindentalism
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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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.
&fist; As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute
identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things
and human conceptions of them, the Kantian distinction between
transcendent and transcendental ideas can have no place in
their philosophy; and hence, with them, transcendentalism claims to have a
true knowledge of all things, material and immaterial, human and divine, so
far as the mind is capable of knowing them. And in this sense the word
transcendentalism is now most used. It is also sometimes used for
that which is vague and illusive in philosophy.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought,
imagery, or diction.
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.
&fist; As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute
identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things
and human conceptions of them, the Kantian distinction between
transcendent and transcendental ideas can have no place in
their philosophy; and hence, with them, transcendentalism claims to have a
true knowledge of all things, material and immaterial, human and divine, so
far as the mind is capable of knowing them. And in this sense the word
transcendentalism is now most used. It is also sometimes used for
that which is vague and illusive in philosophy.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought,
imagery, or diction.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- 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.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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