contextualist
- a word derived from contextualism.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a contextualist approach to the history of philosophy?
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A contextualist approach interprets philosophy in terms of the historical and cultural contexts in which it was written.
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We may distinguish, broadly, between three main approaches to the history of philosophy—the presentist approach, the contextualist approach, and the hermeneutic approach.
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While the contextualist approach makes possible this detailed and rich type of understanding, there is a danger that contextualist historians might fall into the trap of antiquarianism.
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Rawn is a "contextualist" who forsakes the intrusive shapes of modernism for structures that blend with a community's character and history.
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