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association with dualism
In dualism: Nature and significance …identified with the doctrine of transcendence—that there is a separate realm or being above and beyond the world—as opposed to monism, which holds that the ultimate principle is inside the world (immanent). In the disciplines concerned with the study of religions, however, religious dualism refers not to the distinction or… Read More
In existentialism: Problems of existentialist theology …in humans the cipher of transcendence—i.e., the negative symbol in which transcendence is revealed. According to Camus, it is an aspect of human revolt against the world. The artist tries to remake the sketch of the world that is before him and to give it the style—that is to say,… Read More
Platonism
In Platonism: The later Neoplatonists …removed to an altogether ineffable transcendence, mitigated by two factors: the presence of the expressions or manifestations of its unifying power, the “henads”—identified with the gods of paganism—at every level of reality; and the possibility of return to absolute unification through the henad with which one is linked. Below the… Read More
Romanticism
In literary criticism: Romanticism …writing of poetry as a transcendentally important activity, closely related to the creative perception of meaning in the world. The poet was credited with the godlike power that Plato had feared in him; Transcendental philosophy was, indeed, a derivative of Plato’s metaphysical Idealism. In the typical view of Percy Bysshe… Read More
