transcendentalism

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This is not the place to enter upon such a subject as "Tasawwuf," or Sufyism; that singular reaction from arid Moslem realism and materialism, that immense development of gnostic and Neo-platonic transcendentalism which is found only germinating in the Jewish and Christian creeds.

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  1. noun A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
  2. noun The quality or state of being transcendental.

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  • The shop of the Peabodys in Boston was a centre of transcendentalism, “The Dial” being published there; and Hawthorne's attention may have been drawn to the movement for a practical application of the new social ideas by this circumstance, and he may well have made the acquaintance of Ripley, the chief projector, through these family friends. —  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Jean Paul fever attacked him in all its transcendentalism, and this influence remained through life, with more or less intensity. —  The World's Great Men of Music
  • Thus poetry becomes an asset, and transcendentalism is exploited after the poet and the philosopher are dead. —  Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
  • They had no education or philosophy to stand between them and the gospel of redemption I must say one word about another kind of transcendentalism which was pushing its way into favour in Roman society at this time--I mean astrology. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • "[957 Another ingredient in the soil was that imaginative transcendentalism which we discussed under the name of Mysticism, in which the soul becomes of greater interest than the body, and a strange yearning possesses the mind to speculate on the nature of the soul, its existence before this life, and its lot in another world. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
 

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/trænsɛnˈdɛntəlɪzm/
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