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Meaning of "transcendentalism"

Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement that emphasizes living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature and personal emotion
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  • 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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Transcendentalism also started during this period.
Fuller would prove to be an important figure in transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism emphasizes subjective intuition over objective empiricism.
He names the opposite position institutional transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism is a literary movement of the nineteenth century as well.
The direction of style is determined by transcendentalism and weightlessness.
A core belief of transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature.
Emerson is the key figure in transcendentalism.
Philosophy and transcendentalism also saw a massive upsurge in this time.
This peetham seeks transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism is the power of knowledge to transcend intellectual growth and spirituality.
Perspectivism is the necessary consequence of a transcendentalism of the attestation as it is envisaged here.
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement.
See also transcendentalism.
With a toddler in his terrible twos and a test tomorrow on transcendentalism.

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Transcendentalism opposed the dogmatic concept of belief and urged to think freely.
The album reflects heavily on the themes of politics and transcendentalism.
The problem for skepticism is that transcendentalism is intuitive and empiricism is not.
Transcendentalism has been directly influenced by Indian religions.
Several new books about experiences in transcendentalism made this subject popular conversation.
One such newly emerging philosophy was called Transcendentalism.
All the nonsense of transcendentalism disappears quite naturally once this tactic is adopted.
He was the leader of the Transcendentalism.
Romanticism and transcendentalism have always been a literary movement appreciated in both American and British literature.
This reflects the fundamental transcendentalism of Hindu thought.
This Utopian community was located in Massachusetts and could trace its ties to transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism was in essence an American offshoot of the Romantic movement in Europe.
The latter position has been named transcendentalism after Kant.
The transcendentalism that I am promoting fully accepts its perspectival nature.
He was a major leader of Transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism also influenced Hinduism.
New England is the birthplace of distinctly American literature and the philosophy termed transcendentalism.
He soon became interested in transcendentalism and the work of Xavier Bichat.
He then settled down at Concord and developed that which is usually called his Transcendentalism.
The American incarnation of Romanticism was transcendentalism and it stands as a major American innovation.
In her he found an analogy to the Fundamental of Transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism was a form of American Romanticism.
This is the ultimate sense and the progressive transcendentalism of all the Zen arts.
Dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous, but it works.
I wish I had time to explain dimensional transcendentalism.
This is Transcendentalism.
Alcott became friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and became a major figure in transcendentalism.
His thinking continued to move from Emersonian transcendentalism toward a more humanistic Freethought.
Miller and Versluis regard Emanuel Swedenborg as a pervasive influence on transcendentalism.
His work is situated between Transcendentalism and Realism.
The term transcendentalism sometimes serves as shorthand for " transcendental idealism.
Boston was the center for Transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism had almost reached the proportions of a national grass-roots movement.
The Platonic doctrine tended to an extreme Transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism is the belief that matters of ultimate reality transcend, or go beyond, human experience.

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