Transcendentalism Definition

trănsĕn-dĕntl-ĭzəm
noun
Any of various philosophies that propose to discover the nature of reality by investigating the process of thought rather than the objects of sense experience: the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Fichte are examples of transcendentalism.
Webster's New World
By extension, the philosophical ideas of Emerson and some other 19th-cent. New Englanders, based on a search for reality through spiritual intuition.
Webster's New World
The quality or state of being transcendental.
American Heritage
Any obscure, visionary, or idealistic thought.
Webster's New World
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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Synonyms:
  • transcendental philosophy

Transcendentalism Sentence Examples

  • Emerson's transcendentalism greatly influenced him, and Strauss's Leben Jesu left its mark upon his thought.

  • Lange to some extent modified the transcendentalism of Kant's theory of the origin of knowledge.

  • This new noumenal idealism began, like the preceding, by combining psycho l0 ical idealism with the transcendentalism of Kant and Fichte.

  • The experiment was one of the practical manifestations of the spirit of "Transcendentalism," in New England, though many of the more prominent transcendentalists took no direct part in it.

  • It was during those years that there grew up in New England that form of thought or philosophy known as Transcendentalism.

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