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transcendentalism

Philosophy inaugurated in the 18th century by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. As opposed to metaphysics in the traditional sense, transcendental philosophy is concerned with the conditions of possibility of experience, rather than the nature of being. It seeks to show the necessary structure of our ‘point of view’ on the world.

Introduced to Britain, transcendentalism influenced the writers Samuel Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle.



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For this reason, the Church is convinced that no adequate assessment of the nature of the human person or the requirements for human fulfillment and pyschosocial well-being can be made without respect for man's spiritual dimension and capacity for self-transcendence.
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