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Transcendentalism vs Unitarianism - What's the difference?

transcendentalism | unitarianism |

As nouns the difference between transcendentalism and unitarianism

is that transcendentalism is the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge while unitarianism is the belief in a single God, not divided into any aspects, particularly when presented as a contrast to Christian trinitarianism.

As a proper noun Unitarianism is

(beginning in 1961) The religion known as Unitarian Universalism.

transcendentalism

English

Noun

  • The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
  • Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
  • A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
  • A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

    • Related terms

    * philosophy * religion * transcendental * transcendentalist

    See also

    * ("transcendentalism" on Wikipedia) * Wikibooks: English words suffixed with -ism

    unitarianism

    English

    (wikipedia unitarianism)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The belief in a single God, not divided into any aspects, particularly when presented as a contrast to Christian trinitarianism.

    • Derived terms

    * Unitarianism * unitarian * unitarians * unitarianistic * unitarianistical * unitarianistically

    See also

    * binitarianism * trinitarianism * monotheism