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Transcendentalism biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy which emerged in New England in the early- to mid- nineteenth century. The club was a protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church which was taught at Harvard Divinity School. Transcendentalism was rooted in the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant (and of German Idealism more generally), which the New England intellectuals of the early nineteenth century embraced as an alternative to the Lockean "sensualism " of their fathers and of the Unitarian church, and in Vedic thought. transcendentalism.biography.ms   (623 words)

Transcendental Club The symposium, or club, of whatever it was (Emerson called it something different almost every time he mentioned it--Hedge's Club, the Aesthetic Club, the Transcendental Club), was gathered at a pivotal moment, just as a number of its members were breaking into print. In religion transcendentalism teaches that the religious spirit is a necessary aspect of human nature--or of the human condition--and that the religious spirit does not reside in external forms, words, ceremonies, or institutions. Transcendentalism's commitment ot the individual and to the principle of individuation is a commitment to the soul or spirit that each person possesses in common with all other human beings. www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/club.html   (2062 words)

Transcendentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through a knowledgeable intuitive awareness that is conditional upon the individual. In the same year Transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Henry Hedge. Transcendentalism was rooted in the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant (and of German Idealism more generally), which the New England intellectuals of the early nineteenth century embraced as an alternative to the Lockean " sensualism " of their fathers and of the Unitarian church, finding this alternative in Vedic thought, German idealism, and English Romanticism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transcendentalism   (906 words)

Encyclopedia: Transcendental Club The Transcendental Club was the group of New England intellectuals of the early-to-mid- 19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism. The club was established in the Boston, Massachusetts home of George Ripley, on September 8, 1836, by Frederick Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, Bronson Alcott, James Freeman Clarke, and Convers Francis. The club was a meeting-place for these young thinkers and an organizing ground for their idealist frustration with the general state of American culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and in the Unitarian church. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Transcendental-Club   (212 words)

MSN Encarta - Transcendentalism Transcendentalism, in philosophy and literature, belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience or in a higher kind of knowledge than that achieved by human reason. The terms transcendent and transcendental were used in a more narrow and technical sense by Scholastic philosophers late in the Middle Ages to signify concepts of unrestricted generality applying to all types of things ( see Scholasticism). Transcendentalism also involved a rejection of the strict Puritan religious attitudes that were the heritage of New England, where the movement originated. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565054/Transcendentalism.html   (670 words)

Encyclopedia: Transcendentalism Transcendental in philosophical contexts In philosophy, transcendental experiences are experiences of an exclusively human nature that are other-worldly or beyond the human realm of understanding. The Transcendental Club was the group of New England intellectuals of the early-to-mid-19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was rooted in the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant (and of German Idealism more generally), which the New England intellectuals of the early nineteenth century embraced as an alternative to the Lockean "sensualism" of their fathers and of the Unitarian church, finding this alternative in Vedic thought, German idealism, and English Romanticism. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Transcendentalism   (2383 words)

§7. The General Principles of Transcendentalism. VIII. Transcendentalism. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary ... The word “transcendental”; in its philosophic sense goes back to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason, though in New England, as elsewhere, the term lost its narrowly technical application and borrowed at the same time a new shade of meaning from the Critique of Practical Reason. Transcendentalism, on the other hand, reaffirmed the soul’s inherent power to grasp the truth, and upon this basis went on to erect a metaphysical structure similar in its main outlines to the leading Platonic and idealistic philosophies of the past. This spirit of uplift, together with the moral impulsion it imparts, is the heart of New England transcendentalism. www.bartleby.com /225/1707.html   (779 words)

ORBSEARCH.COM | encyclopedia of knowledge Transcendentalism is a conglomeration of similar, but diverse ideas about literature, religion, culture and philosophy. The club was a protest to the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism[?] at Cambridge and Harvard. Transcendentalism itself is difficult to define concisely, due to the diverse expressions of those involved in the movement. www.orbsearch.com /tr/Transcendentalism.php   (155 words)

History of The Dial Although Transcendentalism was not a clearly defined movement, or even a name that was adopted at the time, what was clear, even before the club began meeting, was the desire of many people in the Boston area, primarily writers and ministers, who espoused the "new ideas" to publish and find other like-minded Americans. So it was natural that the Transcendental Club soon focused its efforts on creating a new kind of journal, which had been the dream of Alcott and Emerson for several years. It became clearer that the dissenting theological views within the Transcendental Club ensured that the journal would be primarily literary. www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/dialhistory.html   (941 words)

Red Era Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Transcendentalism was first used by religious philosophers in Europe before it was adopted by American writers in the early part of the nineteenth century. Transcendentalism came to be applied almost exclusively to doctrines of metaphysical ideas while the term transcendent described religious symbols such as God and the soul. Martin Bickman, a University of Colorado professor, describes Transcendentalism as the questioning of established cultural forms, its urge to reintegrate spirit and matter, its desire to turn ideas into concrete action developed a momentum of its own, spreading from the spheres of religion and education to literature, philosophy, and social reform. www.thememoir.com /transcendentalism.htm   (751 words)

Transcendentalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) It has its roots in the Transcendental Club established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by several prominent Americans including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Hedge. The club was a protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Cambridge and Harvard. The term Transcendentalism was derived from the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." Ralph Waldo Emerson formulated and expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature, although his usage of the term was quite different from Kant's. www.wikiverse.org /transcendentalism   (462 words)

PAL: American Transcendentalism:ABrief Introduction Note: Nineteenth Century American Transcendentalism is not a religion (in the traditional sense of the word); it is a pragmatic philosophy, a state of mind, and a form of spirituality. Transcendentalism is monist; it does not reject an afterlife, but its emphasis is on this life. Transcendentalism as a movement is rooted in the American past: To Puritanism it owed its pervasive morality and the "doctrine of divine light." It is also similar to the Quaker "inner light." However, both these concepts assume acts of God, whereas intuition is an act of an individual. www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html   (2418 words)

Transcendentalism (CHAL) - Wikisource NEW ENGLAND transcendentalism was a late and local manifestation of that great movement for the liberation of humanity which, invading practically every sphere of civilized activity, swept over Europe at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Although the transcendental philosophy was only one of many forces that led to abolitionism in New England, the connection between the two is a powerful reminder that, in spite of its underlying unity of spirit, transcendentalism was a varied and complex movement. Transcendentalism was, in fact, simply the focus and energizing centre of that larger area of illumination and activity which is coextensive with the whole movement of literary and spiritual expansion that transformed New England during the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century. wikisource.org /wiki/Transcendentalism_(CHAL)   (6396 words)

Convers Francis The transcendental philosophy in its main ideas, was held by eminent orthodox divines who accepted it as entirely in accordance with the Christian scheme, and used it in fact as an efficient support for the doctrines of the church. But his intimacy with the transcendental leaders, and his cooperation with them in some of their most important works, to say nothing of the unique position his transcendental ideas compelled him to assume, as well in ecclesiastical matters as in social reform, entitle him to mention. He was the senior member of the "Transcendental Club," composed of the liberal thinkers who met to discuss literary and spiritual subjects on the ground of reason and the soul's intuitive perceptions. www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Francis.html   (736 words)

§6. The Transcendental Club. VIII. Transcendentalism. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early ... It is natural that those who began to feel the vital effect upon their own religious convictions of this new spirit in philosophy and literature should have found one another out. It is characteristic of the extreme individualism of the movement that the Transcendental Club was never a really formal organization. The transcendentalists, though most of them were Unitarians, did not leave the fold and form a new church—though such an event as Emerson’s withdrawal from the ministry in 1832 is symbolic of a general spiritual secession than taking place. www.bartleby.com /225/1706.html   (319 words)

Unity Temple: Services: Sermons: Transcendental Etudes (11/23/2003) Transcendentalism calls people to a personal religious consciousness, with faith that human beings are in Emerson’s words both part and particle of God. Transcendentalism asserts that there is a religious impulse in human beings, a religious sentiment awakened by the fundamental perception that the world has an essential balance and wholeness. He declared that by and large that churches are dead, that for religion to survive a new generation of ministers were needed who spoke from their own experience forged through the fire of thought. www.unitytemple.org /services/sermons/2003/TranscendentalEtudes.htm   (2248 words)

American Transcendentalism American transcendentalism was an important movement in philosophy and literature that flourished during the early to middle years of the nineteenth century (about 1836-1860). Transcendentalism posits a distinction between "Understanding," or the normal means of apprehending truth through the senses, and "Reason," a higher, more intuitive form of perception. Transcendentalism, like other romantic movements, proposes that the essential nature of human beings is good and that, left in a state of nature, human beings would seek the good. www.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl311/amtrans.htm   (1391 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Transcendentalism The terms transcendent and transcendental are used in various senses, all of which, as a rule, have antithetical reference in some way to experience or the empirical order. If, however, to the data of sequence furnished by experience we apply the a priori form causation, we are introducing a transcendental element which elevates our knowledge to the rank of universal and necessary truth: "Every effect has its cause." Kant, as has been said, does not always adhere to this distinction. Therefore, he defined the task of philosophy to consist in the examination of knowledge for the purpose of determining the a priori elements, in the systematic enumeration of those elements, for forms, and the determination of the rules for their legitimate application to the data of experience. www.newadvent.org /cathen/15017a.htm   (1080 words)

nrich.maths.org::Mathematics Enrichment::NRICH During the next day or so, I'm going to state three results which are useful for showing various numbers are transcendental, and will prove the first two theorems, since the proofs are quite interesting, and not impossible to understand. are transcendental (and hence irrational), which is a frequently occuring theme. In fact this number was the first number ever to be proved to be transcendental. www.nrich.maths.org.uk /askedNRICH/edited/2682.html   (482 words)

Transcendentalism, Transcendence 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. Transcendentalism is an idealistic philosophy that in general emphasizes the spiritual over the material. mb-soft.com /believe/text/transcen.htm   (940 words)

Transcendentalism The formation of the movement was in 1836 with the establishment of the Transcendental Club of Boston, Massachusetts. Their transcendentalism seemed to be more of a combination of intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual attributes. Although the club as a whole held no specific doctrine, there was an anonymous pamphlet written mostly likely by Charles Mayo Ellis (1818-1878), which was entitled An Essay on Transcendentalism, that stated the most commonly held principles of the group. www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/t/transcendentalism.html   (1355 words)

Purity of Impulse in Fight Club What excited me about Fight Club was the visceral appeal of the filmmaking, the scathing insight of the ideas, the basic appeal of the three stars (I am soft on Brad), the sheer energy and passion of everyone involved, their apparent commitment to doing something different. Fight Club is a kind of love story, a story of self love, in which loneliness and isolation have grown so total that it becomes necessary to create a soul mate out of nothingness, out of one's own isolate psyche, in order to live. The fight clubs are not simply a means to return to primal, instinctive behavior, since this in itself is the means for a profounder end: that of (for lack of another word) enlightenment, or self-realization. www.divinevirus.com /fightclub.html   (7551 words)

Consciousness-Based Education Association The club format provides instruction for group meditation, knowledge of Natural Law taught in age-appropriate lessons, and enjoyable learning activities including songs, stories, plays, nature study, and art. The club schedule is established locally, with at least one meeting per week, after school or on the weekend. The curriculum fee for the club is $17.50 per hour for each student enrolled during the year. www.cbeprograms.org /action/afterschool_program.html   (319 words)

transcendental meditation free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) It has its roots in the Transcendental Club established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by several prominent Americans including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and H... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is a controversial guru, associated with Transcendental Meditation and the Beatles. The party is the political arm of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. www.sanatanadharma.net /meditation/transcendental+meditation+free   (606 words)

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: American Transcendentalism - 1 Since the controversy over transcendentalism, some within the denomination have always felt it important to maintain continuity with the Christian tradition, whereas others have found Christianity to be intellectually limited and emotionally restrictive. New England Transcendentalism was a religious, literary, and philosophical movement that flourished especially between 1836, when the essay Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published, and 1844, when the semiofficial journal of the movement, The Dial, ceased publication. His religious philosophy, strongly influenced by transcendentalism, was the basis for vigorous attacks on the popular theology and for advocacy of social and ecclesiastical reforms. www.radicalacademy.com /amphilosophy4.htm   (2297 words)

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