Whats the idea behind this TRANSCENDENTALISM is a very big word that describes a very simple idea. People, men and women equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel.

A philosophy, a movement and related to ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

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The word above is become a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.

It also describes a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Its call involves the transcending course, or going beyond, empiricism especially, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

i pretty sure it is old

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