intellectualist
- noun
- /ˌɪntəˈlɛkʧuəlɪst/
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intelectualista
- The selectivity in reading and rearticulating Dewey's texts makes one suspicious that what is going on is an intellectualist bias to treat inquiry as something that is discourse and is guided by discourse.
Examples
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That is why St. Thomas, as an intellectualist, held discursive knowledge in low esteem.
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Plato and Aristotle rejected this intellectualist conception of desire.
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This, in turn, can seem to presuppose an intellectualist conception of desire.
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In Blondel's view, modern philosophy in its various forms is necessarily intellectualist because it remains committed to the idea of human self-sufficiency.
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In the study of action, Blondel finds the necessary correction for the two intellectualist assumptions present in Spinozism.
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Islahism was essentially reformist, intellectualist, and non-violent.
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The turn to the study of action at this point is crucial, for a one-sidedly intellectualist philosophy could never find this immanent norm, since it is not present simply in speculation.
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In the preceding passages, Darwin espouses the "intellectualist" view of animism-religion favored by Tylor and Frazer.
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As an intellectualist, she believed that logic should guide our ethical decisions rather than emotions.
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He identified as an intellectualist, often prioritizing rational arguments over feelings in debates.
Antonyms
How Intellectual
Surface Forms
Morphology
intellectualist = intellectual (transparent) = intellect + ual + ist
Formed by adding the productive agent suffix '-ist' to the adjective 'intellectual' (itself from 'intellect' + '-ual'), so the meaning 'a person characterized by intellect/reason' is directly inferable.
Etymology
Intellectualist comes from the word intellect (from Latin intelligere, 'to understand') plus the ending -ist, which means 'a person who believes in or practices something'. So, an intellectualist is someone who trusts thinking and reason, often putting logic above feelings.