单词 | transcendentalism |
释义 | transcendentalismn. 1. a. Transcendental philosophy; a system of this; applied to that taught by Kant and other philosophers; also, to the idealism of Schelling. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > transcendentalism transcendentalism1803 1803 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 265 The theory of transcendentalism may therefore be a better dogmatism than others. 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt III. 40 He has thus discovered the difference between objective and subjective reality and this point of view is transcendentalism. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. viii. 69 He was thought to hold..alone in England, the key of German and other Transcendentalisms. 1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law ii. 117 What is transcendentalism but the tendency to trace up all things to the relation in which they stand to abstract Ideas? 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 58 Transcendentalism, seeking the supernatural everywhere, loses sight of it as such. b. The religio-philosophical teaching of the New England school of thought represented by Emerson and others: see quot. 1911. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > transcendentalism > transcendental philosophy of Emerson over-soul1841 transcendentalism1842 overthought1883 1842 R. W. Emerson Lect. Transcendentalist in Wks. (1906) II. 279 What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism. 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 468 Boston and its immediate neighborhood..really made up the kingdom ruled by Transcendentalism. 1887 J. E. Cabot Mem. Emerson I. vii. 248 The Boston or New England Transcendentalism had, as Dr. Hedge says, no very direct connection with the transcendental philosophy of Germany, the philosophy of Kant and his successors. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 172/2 [article Transcendentalism] The most famous example of the pseudo-philosophic use of the term is for a movement of thought which was prominent in the New England states from..1830 to 1850. Its use originated in the Transcendental Club (1836) founded by Emerson, Frederic Henry Hedge, and others. The movement had several aspects: philosophical, theological, social, economic. 2. Exalted character, thought, or language; also, that which is extravagant, vague, or visionary in philosophy or language; idealism. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] ideality1815 transcendentalism1833 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 585/1 If through the high silent, meditative Transcendentalism of our Friend we detected any practical tendency whatever, it was at most Political. 1837 W. M. Thackeray Carlyle's French Revol. in Wks. (1900) XIII. 249 It teems with sound, hearty philosophy (besides certain transcendentalisms which we do not pretend to understand). 1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) xi. 287 Nor did the lofty transcendentalism of his books by any means palliate the acted meannesses of his life. 1871 W. H. Miller Cult. Pleasure Pref. (1872) 10 It is time, indeed, that the whole subject of happiness should be dragged down from the regions of transcendentalism.., and be made, if possible, to take its place in the highways and byeways of every-day life. 3. The quality or character of transcendent excellence; transcendency. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun] pricea1275 sovereigntyc1340 primacyc1384 sublimityc1429 vassalagec1430 precellence?a1439 pre-excellencec1450 pre-eminencec1460 superexcellencec1475 chief1519 pre-eminency1523 greaterness1540 precellency1557 superexcellency?1563 divinenessa1586 superancya1586 sublimenessa1599 pre-excellency1603 especialness1614 transcendencea1616 transcendency1615 transcendentness1625 top1627 antecellency1657 quality1665 transcendingness1730 transcendentalism1841 surpassingness1879 transcendentality1881 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 138 Dante and Shakspeare..dwell apart..: in the general feeling of the world, a certain transcendentalism, a glory as of complete perfection, invests these two. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < |
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