Transcendentalism
in philosples set up republics of their own. philosophy from the frequent use of the term transcendental by Kant, who gave it a meaning quite distinct from that term transcendental by Kant, who gave philosophy from the frequent use of the it a meaning quite distinct from that denies, the possibility of knowledge respecting what lies beyond the range of experience. Kant distinguished knowledge into a priori (not originating from experience. Kant distinguished knowl- TRANSFORMISM from experience), thus giving to the experience) and a posteriori (derived phrase a priori knowledge a meaning difphilosophy since the days of Aristotle; from experience), thus giving to the and he applied the epithet transcendental ferent from that which it had borne in to the knowledge that certain intuitions tions, to which he gave the Aristotelian name of categories, were independent of tions, to which he gave the Aristotelian experience. Necessity and strict uni- (such as time and space) and concepversality are for Kant the sure signs of experience. Necessity and strict uninon-empirical cognition. Transcendental philosphy is a philosophy of the merely speculative pure reason; for all moral philosphy is a philosophy of the merely practice, so far as it involves motive, refers to the feeling, and feeling is always empirical. phy of Schelling and The word is applied also to the philosoligious movement in New England in ligious movement in New England in In theology, the name given to a rethe identity of the subject and object. and Hegel, who assert took a prominent part.
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