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Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music.
Modern “integral” or holistic philosophy within the Wilberian lineage, as well as Steve Mctintosh, author of Evolution’s Purpose seek to integrate Beauty,Truth, and Goodness as necessary requisites of all evolution in the Kosmos (body, mind, soul, spirit) within the individual at the microcosmic developmental level, as well as sociologically.
For example, music's capacity to express emotion has been a central issue. Aesthetics is a sub-discipline of philosophy. In the 20th century, important contributions were made by Peter Kivy , Jerrold Levinson , Roger Scruton , and Stephen Davies .
In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in ...
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”) continues to push creative boundaries with his latest score for the historical film “Chhaava,” while simultaneously spearheading ...
In religion, transcendence refers to the aspect of God's nature and power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws.This is contrasted with immanence, where a god is said to be fully present in the physical world and thus accessible to creatures in various ways.
The Transcendental Club was a group of New England authors, philosophers, socialists, politicians and intellectuals of the early-to-mid-19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism. Overview [ edit ]