The Good, The True, The Beautiful

Santayana's "vital philosophy" (which sees religion as "poetry intervening in life") shifts the discussion about religion from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics and aesthetics. That vital philosophy and the transgressive transcendentalism to which it gives birth is yet another manifestation of what Carlos Fraenkel has named "philosophical religion" except that, now, the True (which has dominated philosophical religion since Plato) collapses into the Good and the Beautiful. Moreover, these three topoi are merely that--topics of conversation, the ongoing conversation of humanity about what it means to be human.

It is for this reason that we turn, initially, to Wittgenstein and, increasingly, to Heidegger, as we stroll along the Path--in silence and fitful speech...

Transgressive Transcendentalism maintains a broad, transnational, trans-historical, and eclectic canon--a strong legacy from Original (or "First Wave") Transcendentalism (the Transcendental Club).