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transcendentalism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English transcendental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English transcendentalism From transcendental + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. (countable, uncountable) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • In this respect his hesitations are reminiscent of Brzozowski, except that Adler maintained his absolute transcendentalism to the end instead of trying to synthesize it with his Vernunftreligion and so repair the incoherence of his philosophy. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 284:
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

antitranscendentalism

Relateds

transcendental · religion · philosophy · transcendentalist

Translations (35)

ja 超絶主義 (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · cmn 超驗主義 /超验主义 (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · tr transandantalizm (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · ja 超絶主義 (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · cmn 超驗主義 /超验主义 (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · ky трансцендентализм (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · el υπερβατισμός (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · cmn 超越主義 /超越主义 (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · ca transcendentalisme (ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction) · ko 초월주의 (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · de Transzendentalismus (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · ja 超越主義 (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · cmn 超越論 /超越论 (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · de Transzendentalismus (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · hi अलौकिकता (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · hi प्रागनुभविकवाद (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · pl transcendentalizm (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · ja 超越主義 (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · la transcendentalismus (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · hi इंद्रियातीतवाद (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · pt transcendentalismo (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · ko 초월주의 (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · tr transandantalizm (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · la transcendentalismus (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · hi अनुभवातीतवाद (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · ca transcendentalisme (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · ca transcendentalisme (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · hi अतींद्रियवाद (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · fr transcendentalisme (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge) · kk трансцендентализм (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · pl transcendentalizm (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality) · pt transcendentalismo (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · ky трансцендентализм (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · sv transcendentalism (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century) · kk трансцендентализм (a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century)