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Word | Transcendentalism |
Russian Meaning | трансцендентальная философия |
any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material / The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. / 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., | |
Usage | ⇒ Upanishads stress on transcendentalism ⇒ Emerson's ‘The Transcendentalist’ stands as a manifesto of this philosophical movement, in which he explicitly identifies Transcendentalism as a form of philosophical Idealism. |
Synonyms | spiritualism, otherworldliness, philosophy, transcendental philosophy, ambiguity, atomism, eeriness, elfdom, faerie, idealism, ideality, immateriality, miraculousness, mysteriousness, mystery, numinousness, occult, perplexity, preternaturalism, superhumanity, |
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