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English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ist

Noun

transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)

1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”

2. Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

Related terms

• transcendentalism

See also

• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantaliste

Noun

transcendentalist m (plural transcendentali?ti)

1. transcendentalist

Declension

English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ism

Noun

transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. 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. 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.

Related terms

• philosophy
• religion
• transcendental
• transcendentalist

Translations

See also

• transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantalisme

Noun

transcendentalism n (uncountable)

1. transcendentalism

Declension