irreflective

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I address you as a true philosopher of nature, foreseeing the perpetual misery your irreflective character and total absence of moral discernment are preparing for' &c.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

In answering these questions the pragmatists are more analytic and painstaking, the intellectualists more offhand and irreflective.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry

It is the same story, from the first chapter to the last, in education, poor law, public works, relief Acts, even in coercion Acts—lazy, uninformed, and irreflective good intention.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence