Transcendentalism: The Philosophy Of The Mind Essay -- essays researc

Transcendentalism The philosophy of the Mind     Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truth of the universe liesbeyond the noesis obtained from the senses, a knowledge thattranscendentalists regard as the mere air of things (Adventures 162).Transcendentalists believe the mind is where ideas are formed. Thetranscendentalist ideas of God, man, and the universe were not all original, exceptwere a combination of some other philosophies and religions.     One of the major questions of philosophy is "What is the genius of theuniverse?" Immanuel Kant was one of the major Transcendentalists of his time.One of the major questions he asked was, "What is knowledge, and how is it realistic?" Transcendentalists believe that one really altogether knows personalexperiences, and that one shag not know the universe which exists. Kant came tothe conclusion that there are dickens universes, one of experience, called the"Phen omenal Universe", and the other the "Noumenal Universe", the one of reason.The firstly is scientific and the other practical (Frost 42). Transcendentalists have in mind there is a holding of depth in everything that exists. They also thinkthe spirit is what controls your physical array (Halverson 431). Sometranscendentalists say the world has no beginning in time, everything takes determine concord to the laws of nature. The same people think there is not inescapably an absolute Being who causes the world to be (Frost 42).Transcendentalists think nature is a product of the mind, and without the mindnature would not exist (Santayana 42). These ideas come from the amoroustraditions which originated in England. The Romantics believed in spiritualunity of all forms of being, with God, humanity, and nature share a universalsoul (Adventures 208).     Transcendentalists came to the conclusion that good and evil were thingsonly man could control. Their belief of man is that man is part of the universeof objects and things. His knowledge is confined to ideas. He is able toreason, and he buns form ideas of the outmost world of God, freedom, andimmortality (Frost 53). Immanuel Kant said, "Al looks act in such a elan that themaxim determining your conduct might as well lead a universal law act asthough you can will that everybody sh... ... a bowl with many crevices and depressions in its contour. Whenone pours piss into the bowl, it takes the shape of the bowl, filling all thecrevices. In the same way the purlieu pours impressions into the mind andthey are received by the mind and shaped according to the nature of this mind(Frost 257). Some transcendentalists think all minds are alike. They say allminds have certain categories such as totality, unity, plurality, and reality.Transcendentalists believe knowledge is limited to the combined role ofsensibility and understanding, both of which are come to with sense andexperien ce, though in different ways (Hakim 98). They also think knowledge isuniversal (Frost 258). Some transcendentalists think the ideas are of the mindand cannot be applied to a world outside of the mind. They believe ideas are aresult of the kind of thinking organ which people have, and are decided byits nature.     Transcendentalism is a combination of beliefs, some of which are fromother religions and other people and their philosophies. It is a belief thatthere is another way knowledge is obtained, not only from the senses, but alsofrom the mind.