by: Miss Deinzelle Villaranda

Transcendence often refers to an

experience with the divine or God, which is
conceived as absolute, eternal, and infinite.
Negative theology and mysticism
recognizes the limits of conceptual
understanding or linguistic articulation of
that which transcends the
phenomenal world.
 Immanuel Kant characterized his critical
philosophy as "transcendental" as an
attempt to explain the possibility of
experience. While Kant's use of the term is
unique to him, Edmund Husserl also
adopted the Kantian notion in his
phenomenology.
 In modern philosophy, Kant
introduced a new use of the term
transcendental. In his theory of
knowledge, this concept is concerned
with the conditions of possibility of
knowledge itself.
 He also set the term
transcendental in opposition to
theterm transcendent, the latter
meaning "that, which goes beyond"
(transcends) any possible
knowledge of a human being.
 He also set the term
transcendental in opposition to
theterm transcendent, the latter
meaning "that, which goes beyond"
(transcends) any possible
knowledge of a human being.
Jean-Paul Sartre also speaks of transcendence
in his works. In Being and Nothingness, Sartre
uses the term transcendence to describe the
relation of the self to the object oriented world,
as well as our concrete relations with others.
For Sartre, the for-itself is sometimes called a
transcendence.
 One of the most famous American
psychologists, Abraham Maslow,
became widely known for his theory
of psychological health called as
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
 It is the concept of making personal
progress in different fields – physical,
mental spiritual. Self-transcendence
means we seek to exceed our previous
achievements and extend our capacities.
There is no need to separate the
physical self-transcendence with
spiritual development; they can
harmoniously work together and
complement each other.