4: Transcendence and the Human Body Flashcards
often refers to an experience with the divine or God, which is conceived as absolute, eternal, and infinite.
Transcendence
an example of an attempt to describe what is transcendent by negating what is finite and relative.
Negative theology
characterized his critical philosophy as “transcendental” as an attempt to explain the possibility of experience.
Immanuel Kant
generally refers to the divine, or God, who is conceived as being transcendent, infinite, absolute, and eternal.
Transcendence
can also be seen as an attempt to access the divine, or that which is transcendent.
Mysticism
His Idea of beauty is perfect and absolute, which manifests itself in imperfect form in the phenomenal world.
Plato
In his theory of knowledge, this concept is concerned with the conditions of possibility of knowledge itself.
Immanuel Kant
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.
Immanuel Kant
interprets Kant’s appeal to faith as his most effective solution to this problem.
Stephen Palmquist
the “transcendent” is that which transcends our own consciousness-that which is objective rather than only a phenomenon of
consciousness.
Husserlian phenomenology
object of intentionality, that is, object of mental acts such as thinking, feeling, imagining, hoping, believing, and others
Noema
is used in phenomenology to refer to the terminus of an intention as given for consciousness
Noema
Uses the term transcendence to describe the relation of the self to the object oriented world, as well as our concrete relations with others.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and
Nothingness
means we seek to exceed our previous achievements and extend our capacities.
Self-transcendence
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.
Abraham Maslow, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs