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transcendentalism

[ UK /tɹænsɪndˈɛntəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

How To Use transcendentalism In A Sentence

  • The result of this inversion is for Chayes a new transcendentalism, one in which "the man raises himself to a level above both the human and the mundane natural" (Shelley 624). Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
  • We honor Ralph Waldo Emerson, but where does Transcendentalism figure in anybody's life today?
  • She tries to picture Chas in a tweed jacket, talking about transcendentalism. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.
  • The hermeneutic paradigm the Kantian narrative was designed to protect can best be put in terms of transcendentalism.
  • To some extent, it has something of conservatism complying with reality, and rejects idealism and transcendentalism.
  • Their ardour was a moral ardour, and the lightest breath of scandal never rested upon them, or upon any phase of Transcendentalism. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
  • But since such a folding is the goal of Kantian aesthetics in the first place, and nontranscendental ways of conceiving the relation between contingency and form are available, second-tier transcendentalism often looks as though it were motivated by the desire to preserve first-tier transcendentalism. close window Notes on 'Seeing Is Reading'
  • As such, taking many cues from Transcendentalism (a movement started in the early 19th century) I don't think any oaths are necessary.
  • Thoreau's collection of essays reflects the philosophy of American Transcendentalism in practice.
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