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intellectualism|ɪntəˈlɛktjuːəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism. Cf. Ger. intellectualismus in sense 1.]
1. Philos. The doctrine that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from the action of the intellect, i.e. from pure reason.
1829Sir W. Hamilton Discuss., Philos. Uncondit. (1852) 4 Rationalism (more properly Intellectualism) has, from his [Leibnitz's] time, always remained the favorite philosophy of the Germans. 1848R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation xiv. (1852) 401 The opposite system, which may be called Intellectualism..To Locke's principle, ‘Nihil in intellectu nisi quod prius fuerit in sensu’, he [Leibnitz] added, ‘nisi ipse intellectus’. 1854Ferrier Inst. Metaph. x. (1856) 288 A middle course between two extremes, by which the Scylla of an excessive sensualism is avoided on the one hand, and the Charybdis of an extravagant intellectualism on the other.
2. The exercise of the intellect alone; devotion to merely intellectual culture or pursuits.
1838Gladstone State in Rel. Ch. (1839) 317 The advocates of this theory often deprecate, in words, a mere naked intellectualism. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 309 Courting whatever diversions I can find in a sensuous, or a frivolous life, or in a cold intellectualism. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 275 Religion is no intellectualism, but righteousness. |