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==Definition==

==Definition==

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>

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>

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><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBHgfLqH_RUC&pg=PA20|title=The Transcendentalists|date=2007|pages=20}}</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> The terms 'understanding' and 'reason' came to be distinguishing concepts between Lockean and Kantian ideals.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-HnqJR6CB4C&pg=PR29|title=Transcendentalism : A Reader: A Reader|date=2000}}</ref>

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><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBHgfLqH_RUC&pg=PA20|title=The Transcendentalists|date=2007|pages=20}}</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> The terms 'understanding' and 'reason' came to be distinguishing concepts between Lockean and Kantian ideals.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-HnqJR6CB4C&pg=PR29|title=Transcendentalism : A Reader: A Reader|date=2000}}</ref>

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[Brook Farm]]

* [[Brook Farm]]

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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.

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