Concept
Transcendence (philosophy)
Overview
In philosophy, transcendence is the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages. It includes philosophies, systems, and approaches that describe the fundamental structures of being, not as an ontology (theory of being), but as the framework of emergence and validation of knowledge of being. These definitions are generally grounded in reason and empirical observation and seek to provide a framework for understanding the world that is not reliant on religious beliefs or supernatural forces. "Transcendental" is a word derived from the scholastic, designating the extra-categorical attributes of beings.
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The higher life which belongs to this sphere, this supreme enjoyment of truth, which as feeling is called "blessedness," and as conscious thought "contemplation," we may describe generically as the life known to religion. For religion is just this universal domain[184], in virtue of which the _one_ concrete totality of the World comes to each man in union with himself, as his essential substance, while it remains no…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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_Teacher: Reply._ Your objection combines and confuses two things. To disentangle them is to answer the objection. (1) The notion of transcendence has a double meaning; first, it denotes that which lies inherently and essentially beyond experience. It is interesting to note that the opponents of pragmatism have been forced by the exigencies of their hostility to resuscitate a doctrine supposedly dead: the doctrine…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
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In the latter case the concept is a _transcendent_ one, which is different from a concept of the Understanding, to which an adequately corresponding experience can always be supplied, and which therefore is called _immanent_. An _aesthetical Idea_ cannot become a cognition, because it is an _intuition_ (of the Imagination) for which an adequate concept can never be found.
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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Philosophers who discussed Transcendence (philosophy)
- Leszek Kołakowski
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Mircea Eliade
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Gianni Vattimo
- Ian Hacking
- Plotinus
- The Order of Things
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Edmund Husserl
- Michel Henry
- Franciscus Patricius
- Loren Eiseley
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
- Kiyoshi Miki
Related ideas
- Neo-Kantianism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Categories (Aristotle)
- Latin
- Metaphysics
- Being and Nothingness
- Meditation
- German idealism
- Ontology
- Postmodernism
- Immanence
- Knowledge
- Prayer
- Religion
- Parerga and Paralipomena
- Mysticism
- Spinoza's Ethics
- Baruch Spinoza
- Mystical or religious experience
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Emergence
Opposing perspectives
- Faith
- Metaphysics
- Absolute (philosophy)
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Theology
- God
- Divinity
- Emanationism
- Naturalism (philosophy)
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.
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