intellectualism
[in-tl-ek-choo-uh-liz-uh m]
- devotion to intellectual pursuits.
- the exercise of the intellect.
- excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters, especially with a lack of proper consideration for emotions.
- Philosophy.
- the doctrine that knowledge is wholly or chiefly derived from pure reason.
- the belief that reason is the final principle of reality.
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Origin of intellectualism
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Contemporary Examples
And this mix of intellectualism and faithfulness is filling an unmet need among students on many of these campuses.
These are institutions that are meant to promote the pursuit of intellectualism and honesty.
There the American kids encounter high schools that are deeply, even shockingly, enamored of intellectualism.
Both shared an asceticism and intellectualism, encouraged by the Jesuits.
She was not an intellectual, but she was interested in the aesthetics of intellectualism.
Historical Examples
Intellectualism, then, is another way in which we try to “play it safe.”
Herein is LoveReuel L. Howe
Intellectualism and gnosticism are not confined to the church.
Herein is LoveReuel L. Howe
Intellectualism is the term that best describes this attitude.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish PhilosophyIsaac Husik
But the higher types of intellectualism appear to me slightly mad.
Captain Macedoine's DaughterWilliam McFee
But Intellectualism never perceived the difficulties lurking in it.
PragmatismD.L. Murray
intellectualism
- development and exercise of the intellect
- the placing of excessive value on the intellect, esp with disregard for the emotions
- philosophy
- the doctrine that reason is the ultimate criterion of knowledge
- the doctrine that deliberate action is consequent on a process of conscious or subconscious reasoning
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Word Origin and History for intellectualism
n.
1829; see intellectual + -ism. Probably based on German Intellektualismus (said by Klein to have been coined 1803 by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) from Late Latin intellectualis). In English, originally with reference to the doctrines of Leibnitz.
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