transcendentalism

Betekenis (Engels)

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.
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.

Sinonieme

transcendental philosophy

metaphysics

Vertalings

transcendantalisme

transcendentalisme

Transzendentalphilosophie

Transzendentalismus

trascendentalismo americano

mütealiye

الفلسفة المتعالية

deneyüstücülük

μεταφυσική

υπερβατισμός

trascendentalismo

Transcendentalismo

Etimologie (Engels)

From transcendental + -ism.