id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-129 Transcendence (philosophy) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2640 536 46 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. In modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant introduced a new term, transcendental, thus instituting a new, third meaning. "I call all knowledge transcendental if it is occupied, not with objects, but with the way that we can possibly know objects even before we experience them."[5] Therefore, metaphysics, as a fundamental and universal theory, turns out to be an epistemology. In the central part of his Critique of Pure Reason, the "Transcendental Deduction of the Categories", Kant argues for a deep interconnection between the ability to have consciousness of self and the ability to experience a world of objects. Contemporary transcendental philosophy is developed by German philosopher Harald Holz with a holistic approach. A system of such concepts would be called transcendental philosophy." Kant, Immanuel. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-129.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-129.txt