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transcendental 1. (in the philosophy of Kant) a. (of a judgment or logical deduction) being both synthetic and a priori b. of or relating to knowledge of the presuppositions of thought 2. Philosophy beyond our experience of phenomena, although not beyond potential knowledge 3. Theol surpassing the natural plane of reality or knowledge; supernatural or mystical How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| We might then differ from Derrida and his anticipation of the impossible, unrecognizable, yet possible gift, questioning its desirability as it is imagined and appears connected to a transcendentalized ontology of God, a God who, like the gift, at least for Marion, appears beyond the horizon of "earthly" human economies of reciprocity, a God ex nihilo, and a gift ex nihilo. It was the late medieval nominalists, the protestant reformers, and seventeenth-century Augustinians who "completely privatized, spiritualized, and transcendentalized the sacred, and concurrently reimagined nature, human action, and society as a sphere of autonomous, sheerly formal power. |
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