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In [[philosophy]], the adjective '''transcendental''' and the noun '''transcendence''' convey three different but related primary [[meaning]]s, 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]].

In [[philosophy]], the adjective '''transcendental''' and the noun '''transcendence''' convey three different but related primary [[meaning]]s, 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]].

==Original definition==

==Original definition==

The first meaning, as part of the concept pair transcendence/[[immanence]], is used primarily with reference to [[God]]'s relation to the world and is particularly important in [[theology]]. Here ''transcendent'' means that God is completely outside of and beyond the world, as contrasted with the notion that God is manifested in the world. This meaning originates both in the [[Aristotelian view of God]] as the prime mover, a non-material self-consciousness that is outside of the world. Philosophies of [[immanence]] such as [[stoicism]], [[Spinoza]], [[Deleuze]] or ''[[pantheism]]'' maintain that God is manifested in and fully present in the world and the things in the world.

The first meaning, as part of the concept pair transcendence/[[immanence]], is used primarily with reference to [[God]]'s relation to the world and is particularly important in [[theology]]. Here ''transcendent'' means that God is completely outside of and beyond the world, as contrasted with the notion that God is manifested in the world. This meaning originates both in the [[Aristotelian view of God]] as the prime mover, a non-material self-consciousness that is outside of the world. Philosophies of [[immanence]] such as [[stoicism]], [[Spinoza]], [[Deleuze]] or ''[[pantheism]]'' maintain that God is manifested in and fully present in the world and the things in the world.

==Medieval usage==

==Medieval usage==

In the second [[meaning]], which originated in Medieval philosophy, concepts are ''transcendental'' if they are broader than what falls within the [[Aristotelian]] categories that were used to organize [[reality]] conceptually. Primary examples of the transcendental are the existent (''ens'') and the characteristics, designated ''transcendentals'', of [[unity]], [[truth]], and [[goodness]].

In the second [[meaning]], which originated in Medieval philosophy, concepts are ''transcendental'' if they are broader than what falls within the [[Aristotelian]] categories that were used to organize [[reality]] conceptually. Primary examples of the transcendental are the existent (''ens'') and the characteristics, designated ''transcendentals'', of [[unity]], [[truth]], and [[goodness]].

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Immanence]], which is the reverse of transcendence.

* '''''[[Immanence]]''''', which is the reverse of transcendence.

* Maslow's [[hierarchy]] of needs

* Maslow's [[hierarchy]] of needs

* [[Transcendental idealism]]

* [[Transcendental idealism]]

* [[Transcendentalism]]

* [[Transcendentalism]]

* [[Panentheism]]

* [[Panentheism]]

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