Post by Rakehel on May 10, 2021 9:53:30 GMT -5
Transcendentalism
05-21-06, 09:11 AM
The general philosophical concept of transcendence, or belief in a higher reality not validated by sense experience or pure reason, was developed in ancient times by Parmenides and Plato. Plato referred to a realm of ideal Forms that was unknowable through the senses, and theologians since have spoken of God in the same way. The term transcendentalism is sometimes used to describe Immanuel Kant's philosophy and the philosophies of later German Idealists influenced by Kant.
New England Transcendentalism was a religious, literary, and philosophical movement that flourished especially between 1836, when Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature was published, and 1844, when the semiofficial journal of the movement, the Dial, ceased publication. Influenced by Unitarianism, Transcendentalists denied the existence of miracles, preferring a Christianity that rested on the teachings of Christ rather than on his supposed deeds. Many Transcendentalists, in fact, were Harvard - educated Unitarian ministers who were dissatisfied with their conservative Unitarian leaders as well as with the general conservative tenor of the time.
With a membership that included Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, George Ripley, and Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalists experimented with communitarian living and supported educational innovation, the abolitionist and feminist movements, and a reform of church and society generally. They were committed to intuition as a way of knowing, to individualism, and to belief in the divinity of both man and nature.
Although philosophically based on Kant, the Boston - centered movement was more influenced by the romantic literary movement than by the systematic methodologies of philosophical Idealism. That is, Transcendentalism owed more to Goethe, Coleridge, and Carlyle than to Hegel and Schelling. The mysticism of Emanuel Swedenborg also fed into the ideology of the movement.
wikipedia.org/transcendentalism
05-21-06, 09:11 AM
The general philosophical concept of transcendence, or belief in a higher reality not validated by sense experience or pure reason, was developed in ancient times by Parmenides and Plato. Plato referred to a realm of ideal Forms that was unknowable through the senses, and theologians since have spoken of God in the same way. The term transcendentalism is sometimes used to describe Immanuel Kant's philosophy and the philosophies of later German Idealists influenced by Kant.
New England Transcendentalism was a religious, literary, and philosophical movement that flourished especially between 1836, when Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature was published, and 1844, when the semiofficial journal of the movement, the Dial, ceased publication. Influenced by Unitarianism, Transcendentalists denied the existence of miracles, preferring a Christianity that rested on the teachings of Christ rather than on his supposed deeds. Many Transcendentalists, in fact, were Harvard - educated Unitarian ministers who were dissatisfied with their conservative Unitarian leaders as well as with the general conservative tenor of the time.
With a membership that included Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, George Ripley, and Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalists experimented with communitarian living and supported educational innovation, the abolitionist and feminist movements, and a reform of church and society generally. They were committed to intuition as a way of knowing, to individualism, and to belief in the divinity of both man and nature.
Although philosophically based on Kant, the Boston - centered movement was more influenced by the romantic literary movement than by the systematic methodologies of philosophical Idealism. That is, Transcendentalism owed more to Goethe, Coleridge, and Carlyle than to Hegel and Schelling. The mysticism of Emanuel Swedenborg also fed into the ideology of the movement.
wikipedia.org/transcendentalism