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transcendentalism

/tran-sen-den-tl-iz-uhm, -suhn-/US // ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tlˌɪz əm, -sən- //UK // (ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəˌlɪzəm) //

超验主义,超越主义,超越论,超然主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : transcendental character, thought, or language.
    • : Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.

Examples

  • That was sadly even true for Margaret Fuller, one of the leading lights of transcendentalism.

  • Your religion does not make it—its ethics are too weak, its theories too unsound, its transcendentalism is too thin.

  • The vagueness of transcendentalism is united with the materialism of nature worship, and the resulting equation is pessimism.

  • Here we have the root of the errors which are distinctive of dualism and the prevailing metaphysical transcendentalism.

  • Transcendentalism, too, had just passed the noon meridian of its splendor.

  • The chief fountains of this tradition were Calvinism and transcendentalism.