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Transcendentalism
Meaning
Noun
●
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.
●
In Religion:
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
th
e 19th
century
who were
loosely
bound
together by
adherence
to an
idealistic
system of
th
ought based on a
belief
in
th
e
essential
supremacy
of
insight
over
logic
and experience for
th
e
revelation
of
th
e
deepest
truths.
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