Transcendental idealism

The Beatles embarked on a highly publicised trip to the region of Rishikesh in Northern India in February of 1968. The reason for their joint venture was, principally, to attend a transcendental meditation course taught by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose exclusive seminars they had previously attended in London and Wales. The images of the four men and their wives at the train station leaving Britain for India made headlines all over the international press, and greatly spread the idea of…

Baudelaire’s aesthetics lays in the notion of disbelief the ideal beauty. He denies the equivalence of beautiful with Good and also rejects the idea of absolute truth. He presents his own ‘secular idealism’--- which does not strive for divinity or ideal and does not search platonic idealism in transcendental level. He finds beauty among all unconventional forms --- ugliness; horrific scenes--- are not associated with Good. In this contexts, Baudelaire says in Salon de, 1846: “Romanticism did not…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a key member in the American transcendentalism movement. Transcendentalism, in short, was a movement that consisted of three tenets, which included celebrating the individual, using nature as a mirror of human lives, and trusting your intuition. People like Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others participated in this movement. Transcendentalists believed in spirituality over materials and thought that people should attempt to simplify…

These four components of spiritual intelligence are the capacities for critical existential thinking (CET), personal meaning production (PMP), transcendental awareness (TA), and conscious state expansion (CSE) (King, Mara, & DeCicco, 2012). Anchored in this model is a 24-item self-report measure that was improved and modified across two consecutive studies. The final version of the scale termed as…

exclusively advocating the theory of emptiness (śūnyatā) while the other is bent single-mindedly on an idealistic interpretation of the universe. They thus further assume that the idea of emptiness is not at all traceable in the Yogacara and that idealism is absent in the Madhyamaka. This is not exact as a historical…

In the book Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History, Susan Buck-Morss wrote the following remark about the paradoxical thoughts on slaves at the time: By the Eighteenth century, slavery had become the root metaphor of Western political philosophy, connoting everything that was evil about power relations. Freedom its conceptual antithesis, was considered by the Enlightenment thinkers as the highest and universal political value. Yet this political metaphor began to take root at precisely the time…

Paul D. Cottingham Fr. Kurt Messick Epistemology September 13, 2014 Kant’s and Hume’s epistemology Immanuel Kant and David Hume were notable philosophers within the modern era, each with their own respective ideology and philosophy; Kant was influenced by rationalism, crafted a theory after the Copernican Revolution explaining the role of human reason in obtaining knowledge, whereas Hume, who was influenced by skepticism, put an end to pure reason and an end to the Enlightenment Era. In the…

Richard Rorty, an American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who explored expertise in philosophy and comparative literature into a perspective called “The New Pragmatism” or “neopragmatism.” Rejecting the Platonist tradition at an starting period. Initially he was attracted to analytic philosophy. Rorty’s views were strong when he came to believe from representationalism, this tradition in its own way suffered a lot. He associated with Platonism flaw. And he…

reaching the divine without the need of an intercessor. Transcendentalism As the leader of this movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson interpreted transcendentalism as “whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought,” and as “idealism as it appears in 1842.” He believed that the transcendental law was the “moral law” through which man discovered the nature of God as a living spirit. Three Sources It was a system of thought that originated from three sources. First, American Unitarianism. It…