Transcendentalism

What do we mean by transcendentalism?

A literary and philosophical movement arising in 19th-century New England, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller and asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends empirical and scientific reality and is knowable through intuition. noun

The quality or state of being transcendental. noun

The character of being transcendental. Specifically noun

In philosophy, in general, the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought. noun

The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. noun

Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. noun

The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. noun

Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. noun

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. noun

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. noun

Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material 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.

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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Adjectives that are often used to describe transcendentalism:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective transcendentalism:
progress.

Words that sound like transcendentalism:
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