Tradition
Transcendentalism
Overview
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
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Philosophers who discussed Transcendentalism
- Gilles Deleuze
- Pythagoras
- Plutarch
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Walt Whitman
- Henry David Thoreau
- Swami Vivekananda
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Cornel West
- Islam
- Fernando Pessoa
- Amos Bronson Alcott
- James Martineau
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Harvard Divinity School
- Thomas Carlyle
- Hinduism
- Indian religions
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- Vedas
- Intuition
- The Dial
- Victor Cousin
- German philosophy
- German Romanticism
- Aestheticism
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Harvard University
- Vishnu
- New Thought
- Brahma
- Germaine de Staël
- New England
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- German idealism
- Platonism
Place in the tradition
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