The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
This true side of sensualism we have everywhere recognized and elucidated in metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and theodicea.
A sensualism a little more wise puts the useful in the place of the agreeable, that is to say, changes the form of the same principle.
All the systematic pretensions of sensualism are broken against the manifest reality of universal and necessary truths which are incontestably in our mind.
Thereby, then, we return by a detour to skepticism to which sensualismconducts us directly, and at less expense.
He grew able to resist the contagion of her sensualism and to make her happy, without essentially occupying himself.
She was still a mystery whose inevitable and never varying sensualism was masked for a final instant behind unfamiliar fabrics.
It is only in the decay of the cultus, in the change of view and centre of thought compelled by another religion, that representations of the old emblems ally themselves with sensualism or immorality.
As a matter of course, the sensualism of a Greek or Roman is a much less coarse thing than an Australian's, which does not even include kisses or other caresses.
Pastoral love is coarse enough, in all truth: but this story is infinitely more immoral than, for instance, the frank and natural sensualism of the twenty-seventh Idyl of Theocritus.
Sensualism became the convertible word for utilities.
Provinces were ransacked for fish and fowl and game for the tables of the great, and sensualism was thought to be no reproach.
Obedience is a divine sensualism; it is the sensualism of the saints; its lassitudes are animated with deep pauses and thrills of love and worship.
The book procured for her the delicioussensualism of reading things at once new and old.
To adopt a similar attitude in spiritual matters seems to mesensualism none the less.
And what a hot-bed for that sort of sensualism the Church has always been and still is!
It is a form of sensualism rampant in women; and men encourage it by bestowing upon it the names of womanly virtues.
It was thus blood, sensualism and fiendishness that still aroused Hearn's interest when not only not compelled to the choice, but when they were contraindicated and wholly illogical.
As sensualism is the superstition of love, so fetichistic art is the superstition of true aesthetics.
As sensualism affirmed that truth or being could only be perceived through the sense, so we have only to reverse this proposition, and have the thesis of materialism, viz.
While theoretical sensualism affirms that all our knowledge is determined by sensation, practical sensualism adds to this the analogous proposition that all our volition springs from the same source, and is regulated by the sensuous desire.
The French took up the problem of carrying out the empiricism of Locke, to its ultimate consequences in sensualism and materialism.
These ultimate consequences of sensualismwere first drawn by others after him, as would naturally enough follow.
Wagner's passional and intellectual exaltation and his mystic sensualism are poured out like a fiery torrent, which sweeps away and burns all before it, taking no heed of barriers.
In this again it interprets the aesthetic sensualism of the French race, which seeks pleasure in art, and does not willingly admit ugliness, even when it seems to be justified by the needs of the drama and of truth.
Nor can I conceive of any true religion in the heart of him who practically sinks this relation to a level with sensualism or folly.
We would not deify the world, that is, set up the sensualism of the body, as spiritualism is set up as the sensualism of the soul.
Too much questioning and too little active responsibility lead, almost as often as too much sensualism does, to the edge of the slope, at the bottom of which lie pessimism and the nightmare or suicidal view of life.
And in practical life it is either a nerveless sentimentality or a sensualism without bounds.
Sensualism is represented in the school of Kapila, according to whose doctrine the purification of the soul must be effected through knowledge, the only source of which lies in sensual perception.
Previous to his time, the two systems most in vogue were the sensualism of Locke and his followers and the idealism of Leibnitz, Wolf, and others.
In intellectual philosophy Jouffroy and Damiron continued the work begun by Royer-Collard, that of destroying the influence of sensualism and materialism.
As a philosophical school, Buddhism partakes both of sensualism and idealism; it admits sensual perception as the source of knowledge, but it grants to nature only an apparent existence.
From that time to the present, this science has been represented by opposite schools, the one characterized by sensualism and the other by rationalism.
But while the former developed sensualism in philosophy and economy, the latter applied it to political science and jurisprudence.
The Eclectic school comprises all theories which deny the authority of the Vedas, and admit rational principles borrowed both from sensualism and idealism.
French sensualism shows itself quite incapable of understanding aesthetic production, and the associationism of David Hume is not more fortunate in this respect.
It has been shown to be impossible to escape from sensualism and relativity save by falling into the intellectualist error.
His views oscillate between sensualism and moralism, and he sees little in the whole art of antiquity, of the Middle Ages, or of modern times, which can be looked upon as otherwise than imperfect!
Their authors pass from physiological sensualism to moralism, from imitation of nature to finalism, and to transcendental mysticism, without consciousness of the incongruity of their theses, at variance each with itself.
The sensualism of the writers headed by Du Bos, who looked upon art as a mere pastime, like a tournament or a bull-fight, shows that the truth about Aesthetic had not yet succeeded in emerging from the other spiritual activities.
It is sensualism expressed as, and sanctioned by, religious conviction that is the vital fact of the situation.
Asceticism is, after all, mainly a reversed sensualism, or at least confesses the existence of a sensualism that must not be allowed expression lest its manifestation becomes overpowering.
Moreover, mortification of sense as preached by the great ascetics does not prevent that most dangerous of all forms of gratification, the sensualism of the imagination.
The prevalence of such a sensualism or aestheticism would alone suffice to explain the impotence of the arts.
There is a kind of sensualism or aestheticism that has decreed in our day that theory is not poetical; as if all the images and emotions that enter a cultivated mind were not saturated with theory.
Coincident with these were the demoralising luxuries and domestic sensualism of a polygamous palace.
A sensualism so delicate that it did not appear to be sensualism began to invade him.
And her sensualism is too coarse for her position.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensualism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animalism; appetite; dissipation; hedonism; luxury; unchastity
