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Transcendentalism
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is a belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience, or belief in a higher kind of knowledge than achieved by human reason. revolves around the existence of absolute goodness, something beyond description and knowable, ultimately only through intuition. The term became applied ....
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....d so he resisits all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
James Freeman Clarke once dubbed the transcendentalists the " club ot the likeminded; I suppose because no two of us think alike." But despite the disagreement among transcendentalists themselves, the overall movement shared similar philosophies. These philosophies rested on the SLockean concept of Idealism and Kant's belief in intuition. In other workds, opposed empiricism, which is gaining knowledge f.... |
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