Besides, if a man who is highly intellectual did much wrong, he should be punished in his soul, but on the intellectualist theory such a soul is immortal and cannot be destroyed.
There is an intellectualist logic coalescent with an absolutist metaphysic as aforesaid.
The entire intellectualist system of Leibniz is reared upon this latter principle.
And yet the intellectualist may properly attribute the greatness of a philosophy to its insight rather than to its logical cogency, since cogent logic may be dull and shallow and therefore not great.
Monsieur Bergson comments on this in a private letter from which I translate: “It would be so, I recognize, if these intellectualist philosophers had been philosophers only in virtue of their intellectualism.
By the same right, the intellectualist may denounce intuitionism as equally “vicious.
And it seems to the intellectualist that the possibility of philosophical fertility depends on a discursive, intellectual co-implication of the parts of the realm of truth.
The intellectualist philosopher is a dissector of life’s defunct remains.
No anti-intellectualist philosophy legitimately evades the rules of the game of dialectic by the representation that it is a ‘method rather than a doctrine.
Man becomes ridiculous when we regard him from an intellectualist standpoint; that is, as a machine.
I call attention to this preliminary study of the sciences, because there is a danger that the anti-intellectualist tendency of the pragmatic movement should lead to a disregard of the importance of scientific research.
In the first place, the abandonment by political thinkers and writers of the intellectualist conception of politics will sooner or later influence the moral judgments of the working politician.
But the politician thinks about men in large communities, and it is in the forecasting of the action of large communities that the intellectualistfallacy is most misleading.
Proposals for electoral reform which seem to continue the old intellectualist tradition are still brought forward, and new difficulties in the working of representative government will arise from the wider extension of political power.
When, however, all politicians start with intellectualist assumptions, though some half-consciously acquire quantitative habits of thought, many desert politics altogether from disillusionment and disgust.
On this point English opinion already shows a marked reaction from the intellectualist conception of representative government.
But now, instead of resting in principles after this stagnant intellectualist fashion, let us apply the pragmatic method to the question.
Pragmatism alone can read a positive meaning into it, and for that she turns her back upon the intellectualist point of view altogether.
Do not the fluidity and pragmatic character of dogma, so much insisted on by Sabatier and Le Roy, follow from the anti-intellectualist personalism which we have seen to be the foundation of Newman's philosophy of religion?
The Intellectualist writers were very largely guided in their expositions by the desire of refuting on the one hand Hobbes and on the other Shaftesbury and Hutcheson.
Now this mathematical analogy is the key to the whole position of the Intellectualist writers.
This general view of the logical constitution of the moral experience may suggest a comparison with the fundamental doctrine of the British Intellectualist school.
To the anti-intellectualist empirical logic is an anomaly, a red blue-bird, so to speak.
Little is to be gained by heeding the shouts of either those who acclaim Bergson as a revolutionary against all use of the Intellect, or of those who regard him as no purely anti-intellectualist at all.
The influence of Bergson had led him "to renounce the intellectualist method and the current notion that logic is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be.
Some of his early statements are reactionary and crude and give the impression of a purely anti-intellectualist position involving the condemnation of Intellect and all its work.
Pragmatist truth contains the whole of intellectualist truth and a hundred other things in addition.
Intellectualist truth is then only pragmatist truth in posse.
Well, my dear antagonist, I hardly hoped to convert an eminent intellectualist and logician like you; so enjoy, as long as you live, your own ineffable conception.
This paper was originally followed by a couple of paragraphs meant to conciliate the intellectualist opposition.
The entire quarrel of the intellectualist with him is over his concreteness, intellectualism contending that the vaguer and more abstract account is here the more profound.
I think that the leaven working here is the rooted intellectualist persuasion that, to know a reality, an idea must in some inscrutable fashion possess or be it.
It is well to observe that it would be an error to divide this second view into intellectualist and moralistico-utilitarian, according to whether the end of leading to the true or to what is practically good, be assigned to art.
Locke was asintellectualist in the England of this period as was Descartes in France.
It has been shown to be impossible to escape from sensualism and relativity save by falling into the intellectualist error.
But the greatest triumph of the intellectualist error lies in the theory of artistic and literary classes, which still has vogue in literary treatises, and disturbs the critics and the historians of art.
Kant appeared, and condemned alike theintellectualist and the sensualistic error; but placing the beautiful in a symbol of morality, he failed to discover the imaginative absoluteness of taste.
Speculation on language at this period revealed an equally determined intellectualist attitude.
But Voltaire and writers anterior to him frequently fell back into intellectualist definitions of a word invented precisely to avoid them.
Reality must be rational, they have said, and since the ordinary intellectualist logic is the only usual test of rationality, reality and logic must agree 'somehow.
The trouble is that we are able to see so little into the positive detail of it, and that if once admitted not to be coercively proven by the intellectualist arguments, it remains only a hypothetic possibility.
The criticisms have to be as abstract as the arguments, and in exposing their unreality, take on such an unreal sound themselves that a hearer not nursed in the intellectualist atmosphere knows not which of them to accuse.
That he gives us no closed-in system will of course be fatal to him in intellectualist eyes.
The intellectualist objections to this fall away when the authority of intellectualist logic is undermined by criticism, and then the positive empirical evidence remains.
Bradley holds to the intellectualist logic, and by dint of it convicts the human universe of being irrationality incarnate.
But I hoped ever for a revised intellectualist way round the difficulty, and it was only after reading Bergson that I saw that to continue using the intellectualist method was itself the fault.
The great clash of intellectualist logic with sensible experience is where the experience is that of influence exerted.
May not the remedy lie rather in revising the intellectualist criticism than in first adopting it and then trying to undo its consequences by an arbitrary act of faith in an unintelligible agent.
The conflict of the two ways of knowing is best summed up in the intellectualist doctrine that 'the same cannot exist in many relations.
To establish their absolute they used an intellectualisttype of logic which they disregarded when employed against it.
In the intellectualist scheme of things that mathematical proof has to come first; it has to take root and bury itself and become the second nature of humankind before the new world of instinct can spring out of it and come to blossom.
Men who go down to the sea in ships have a right to say for themselves (tempering the credulity of those who have remained at home) that the intellectualist view of life is altogether too easy and too glib.
Why is it that the intellectualist has not produced any positive theory about the relation of verification to his notion of truth?
The intellectualist seems to think that because the pragmatist insists upon the factor of human want, purpose, and realization in the making and testing of judgments, the impersonal factor is therefore denied.
Moreover, if verification consists in the experimental working out of a belief, the intellectualist thereby admits that his own theory of truth can be known to be true only as it is verified by its workings.
The intellectualist began, if I remember correctly, with conceiving truth as a relation of thought and existence; has he not, in your last objection, substituted for this conception an identification of the bare existence or event with truth?
Not infrequently the intellectualist admits that the process of verification is experimental, consisting in setting on foot various activities that express the intent of the idea and confirm or refute it according to the changes effected.
He is quite content to have the truth of his theory consist in its working in these various ways, and to leave to the intellectualist the proud possession of a static, unanalyzable, unverifiable, unworking property.
And since the conviction, the judgment, is as matter of fact subsequent to the event, how can its truth consist in the kind of blank, wholesale relationship the intellectualist contends for?
As in the intellectualist philosophies, forms of thought are regarded as themselves objects of thought.
The confusion of causal and descriptive ideas is a habit common to both the intellectualist philosopher and the crowd-minded.
With all their talk of proletarian opposition to intellectualism, Socialists never become a crowd without becoming as intellectualist as Fichte or Hegel.
We have previously noted the connection between the intellectualist philosophies with their closed systems of ideas, their absolutists, and the conscious thinking of crowds.
The consideration should be obvious enough; but it has commonly been ignored by philosophers of the intellectualist school.
This is set out in his Psychology of the Moral Self, where he shews himself to be an uncompromising adherent of the intellectualist tradition.
The necessity for such selection no intellectualist theory of Induction has understood.
None of these features does intellectualist logic deign to recognize.
The intellectualist accounts of truth have all failed to make this vital distinction between 'truth-claim' and validated truth.
The second bears the name of the intellectualist theory.
This reduction, if admitted, would much facilitate the introduction of emotion into our system, which, being founded on the distinction between the consciousness and the object, is likewise an intellectualist system.
The intellectualist theory is more vast than Herbartism; it exists in all doctrines in which the characteristic difference between thought and feeling is expunged and feeling is brought back to thought.
We ought to inquire with effort, as has been done with emotion, what is the psychological nature of this phenomenon; and in the same way that there exists an intellectualist theory of the emotions, viz.
James, who reduces all the history of the emotions to intelligence, so there exists an intellectualist theory of effort, which likewise tends to bring back, all will to intelligence.
As an intellectualist he dislikes and distrusts excess of emotion--feeling indulged for its own sake.
What is tragic for hero and heroine is gravely comic to the eye of the intellectualist surveying the folly of men from a height far above the troubled waves of their passion.
Meredith is thus anintellectualist engaged in playing a game of literary chess.
Your intellectualist is not to be blamed if he fails to write as a sentimentalist.
But as pure intellectualist he would put most rationalists to shame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intellectualist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: highbrow; intellect; literate; mandarin; thinker
