Transcendentalism
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Transcendentalism is a noun meaning The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
Meaning
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
More Meanings
- 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.
Word Forms
- transcendentalisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transcendental, apriorism, descendentalism, empiricism, traditionalism, episteme.
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