4: Transcendence and the Human Body Flashcards

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often refers to an experience with the divine or God, which is conceived as absolute, eternal, and infinite.

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Transcendence

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an example of an attempt to describe what is transcendent by negating what is finite and relative.

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Negative theology

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characterized his critical philosophy as “transcendental” as an attempt to explain the possibility of experience.

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Immanuel Kant

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generally refers to the divine, or God, who is conceived as being transcendent, infinite, absolute, and eternal.

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Transcendence

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can also be seen as an attempt to access the divine, or that which is transcendent.

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Mysticism

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His Idea of beauty is perfect and absolute, which manifests itself in imperfect form in the phenomenal world.

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Plato

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In his theory of knowledge, this concept is concerned with the conditions of possibility of knowledge itself.

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Immanuel Kant

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He set the term transcendental in opposition to the term transcendent, the latter meaning “that, which goes beyond” (transcends) any possible knowledge of a human being.

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Immanuel Kant

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interprets Kant’s appeal to faith as his most effective solution to this problem.

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Stephen Palmquist

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the “transcendent” is that which transcends our own consciousness-that which is objective rather than only a phenomenon of
consciousness.

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Husserlian phenomenology

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object of intentionality, that is, object of mental acts such as thinking, feeling, imagining, hoping, believing, and others

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Noema

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is used in phenomenology to refer to the terminus of an intention as given for consciousness

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Noema

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Uses the term transcendence to describe the relation of the self to the object oriented world, as well as our concrete relations with others.

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and
Nothingness

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means we seek to exceed our previous achievements and extend our capacities.

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Self-transcendence

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It is often illustrated as a pyramid with levels of our basic needs: (from top to bottom) self- actualization, esteem, love/belonging, safety and physiological.

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Abraham Maslow, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos.

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Transcendence

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can most easily be measured through improvements in physical achievements.

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Physical Self-Transcendence

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we are seeking to go beyond our limited state of ego to expand our own consciousness.

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Spiritual self-transcendence