A better path towards maturity.

[Sativarg]

Well I am certainly getting an education here. A good bit of reading and some reevaluation should straighten me out. I get these Ideas some times that sound good to me but in the light of day I often find I was sorely lacking in my comprehension of the facts. I suppose this means I would be terrible at debate. If I start to feel that I am wrong I tend to change my mind.

 

Thanks everyone for all the great input. I'll digest it and try to respond more definitively... soon.

[Sativarg]

Are you a transcendentalist :huh: ?

I never really gave thought to the type if "ist" I am. If I have to choose an "ism" to fully embrace I had better do some studying.

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about Transcendentalism in nineteenth-century America. For other uses, see transcendence. Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called American Transcendentalism to distinguish it from other uses of the word transcendental.

 

Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among Transcendentalists' core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.

 

Prominent Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, as well as Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, William Ellery Channing, Frederick Henry Hedge, Theodore Parker, George Putnam, Elizabeth Peabody, and Sophia Peabody, the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne. For a time, Peabody and Hawthorne lived at the Brook Farm Transcendentalist utopian commune.

 

 

 

Transcendence (philosophy)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from

Transcendental (Kant)

) In

philosophy

, the adjective

transcendental

and the noun

transcendence

convey three different but related primary meanings, all of them derived from the word's literal meaning (from

Latin

), of climbing or going beyond: one sense that originated in

Ancient philosophy

, one in

Medieval philosophy

, and one in

modern philosophy

.

 

Transcendental Perspectivism

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Transcendental Perspectivism

is a hybrid philosophy developed by German born philosopher, Professor Werner Krieglstein (PhD, University of Chicago). A blending of

Friedrich Nietzsche

's

Perspectivism

and the utopian ideals of the

Transcendentalism

movement, Transcendental Perspectivism challenges Nietzsche's claim that there is no absolute truths while fully accepting his observation that all truth can only be known in the context of ones perception. This is accomplished through an appreciation of the emotional relationship between two perceptions (the "perceiver" and the "other").

 

tran·scen·den·tal·ism

–noun 1. transcendental character, thought, or language. 2. Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.

transcendentalist

noun advocate of transcendentalism

 

OK, Today I feel like a Transcendental Perspectivist. But I reserve the right to trancend this state of being. :^)

[Sativarg]

Once we are out "in the real world", we are forced to mature, adapt, or die. Many can't 'die' in the literal sense, as the 'helpless' get all sorts of government and local aid, which to me removes such rite of passage from the picture and such individuals never truly grow up.

I agree. It is true that supporting failure uncoditionaly, results in an ever growing poverty trap. A comfort zone that dulls ambition and fosters sloth.

 

Humans as a species age too quickly and have too short of a life span,

perhaps humans physically mature to quickly to fit the needs of a society that demands a formal education that is rigorous and lengthy. If puberty coincided with the 18th birthday instead of the 10th-13th it wouldn't interfere with the forced socialization of the working class. _{Please excuse the sarcasm}

 

Have these people attained a proper 'rite of passage'? I feel in some ways yes, for one doesn't need to have offspring in order to announce they have accomplished something.

A rite of passage, as I intended to convey , a test or trial that facilitates the integration of important aspects of mind and body towards "adulthood"; maturity of mind and body given a chance to coincide. Perhaps by animal I meant body. Even I am not clear on my meanings but my intent was a better integration of self that puts more emphasis on the well being of the individual than on the expectations of society.

 

So to me, this is the true right of passage – when one realizes they are the master of themselves and can choose their own path. When one finally accepts the responsibility of living their own life and controlling it in whatever way they decide.

Well said. Please forgive this adaptation:

An effective right of passage should facilitate a persons realization that "they are the master of themselves and can choose their own path. When one finally accepts the responsibility of living their own life and controlling it in whatever way they decide."

 

 

GTG work a bit.

Thanks again, All, for your interest in this topic.

LTR :^)

 

NOTE: School shooting; does the subject relate to "A better path towards maturity"?

[Sativarg]

Are you a transcendentalist :huh: ?

A better answer:

Warning the word GOD and other things that could be calld religios are in the blog linked below.

the razors edge of time!....??