transcendentalism in English

noun
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an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
Emerson's ‘The Transcendentalist’ stands as a manifesto of this philosophical movement, in which he explicitly identifies Transcendentalism as a form of philosophical Idealism.
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a system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience.
Heidegger had become increasingly impatient with Husserl's transcendentalism and Husserl was unwilling or unable to see any philosophical merit in Heidegger's ‘fundamental ontology’.

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1. American Transcendentalism curiously a similar situation to our own.

2. It is the mixture of the politics between transcendentalism and experientialism.

3. Conflagration is the book that makes it clear that transcendentalism was indeed a movement

4. The most clearly defined Romantic literary movement in this period is New England Transcendentalism.

5. The most clearly defined Romantic literary movement in his period is New England Transcendentalism.

6. In addition, Alcott extends Transcendentalism in feminine reality which also adds the readability of the novel.

7. 24 To some extent, it has something of conservatism complying with reality, and rejects idealism and transcendentalism.

8. In his early years he followed Transcendentalism, a loose and eclectic idealist philosophy advocated by Emerson, Fuller, and Alcott.

9. Atonality? Chapter: CHAPTER 6 Inner Occurrences (Transcendentalism, III) Source: MUSIC IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Author(s): Richard Taruskin

10. Many were drawn to a movement called transcendentalism, without ever being able to define for others quite what the word meant.

11. Andrew and I spent many hours on the Windrush porch discussing almost everything under the sun from party politics to mystic transcendentalism.

12. The pursuit of "purity" is one of the basic features of Kantianism and also the basis of his theory of transcendentalism and criticism.