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This 5 page paper examines the philosophical camps which are transcendentalism and pragmatism which are associated with Emerson and James respectively. The ideas to come from each are examined for similarities. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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roots in the Transcendental Club, a club that existed in Cambridge in 1836 ("Transcendentalism," 2004). One member of that extraordinary club was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was most known
for his poetry and prose but he is a philosopher in his own right. His works are important to the study of philosophy and in some way one can equate
some of his ideas with that of William James who founded the philosophy of pragmatism. First, Emersons concept of transcendentalism was not completely his own. In fact, the
idea of transcendentalism may be attributable to the works of Immanuel Kant ("Transcendentalism," 2004). What is transcendentalism? When Kant pursued transcendence for example he saw it as knowledge beyond
the scope of human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds ones personal understanding. Transcendence exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to
the religious sort who see God as omnipotent and omniscient, certainly exceeding what a human being can understand. God knows all and many can accept that concept. But Kant did
not let it go at that. He did not throw up his hands like so many common folk do and say that they do not understand. Rather, Kant persisted to
probe related concepts, an endeavor that would prove extraordinary in the philosophical niche. In fact, in the midst of Kants argument for why certain concepts would be necessary and
known a priori with respect to experience--also called the Transcendental Deduction-- Kant understood that "synthesis" would have to produce an entire structure of consciousness within which perception occurs" ("Immanuel,"
2004). Ameriks explores this further in his original work, pointing out many inconsistencies that render Kants suppositions sometimes implausible (Amerik, 1978). Yet, it was Kants ideas from which Emerson drew
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