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Rejection of Lockean principles
Transcendentalists argue that human nature is comprised of three primary aspects: animal, rational, and spiritual. Emerson explains:
Transcendentalists argue that human nature is comprised of three primary aspects: animal, rational, and spiritual. Emerson explains:
{{quotation|Strictly speaking, then, Transcendentalism is the recognition of this third attribute of humanity, and the inquiry must be into the history of this - the arguments that support it, its effect upon the world, on literature, philosophy, the arts, criticism, religion, and on man in his political social and moral relations.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|last1=Emerson|first1=Ralph Waldo|title=Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses|date=1886|pages=5-8}}</ref>}}
{{quotation|Strictly speaking, then, Transcendentalism is the recognition of this third attribute of humanity, and the inquiry must be into the history of this - the arguments that support it, its effect upon the world, on literature, philosophy, the arts, criticism, religion, and on man in his political social and moral relations.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|last1=Emerson|first1=Ralph Waldo|title=Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses|date=1886|pages=5-8}}</ref>}}
Transcendentalism also underscores the a priori conditions of knowledge and experience. The unknowable character of ultimate reality, or that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality.<ref>[http://www.transcendentalists.com/terminology.html Terminology]</ref> For [[Immanuel Kant]], A priori was knowledge in advance of all experience, that is, knowledge of the content of any of the concepts or principles of thought; and the necessary principles of attaining knowledge are themselves a priori, transcendent of experience.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bq6WHBUiafYC&pg=PA2|title=French Philosophers and New-England Transcendentalism|date=1908|pages=2}}</ref>
==Rejection of Lockean principles==
For Transcendentalists, the principles of [[John Locke]] were very problematic.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hckauAdkix0C&pg=PA168|title=Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism|date=2009|pages=168}}</ref> Locke's ideals stood for the denial of innate ideas.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1povAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3|title=Studies in New England Transcendentalism|date=1908}}</ref>
==See Also==
==See Also==
==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
==External Links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=6ok3AAAAMAAJ Transcendentalism in New England: A History], Germany, to France, then the United Kingdom, then finally to New England.
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=6ok3AAAAMAAJ Transcendentalism in New England: A History], Germany, to France, then the United Kingdom, then finally to New England.