sensualistic
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The fact, however, rather confirms the force of Stein's remark, for the Hegelian idealism first bred the more sensualistic system of humanism, and then humanism bred socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
It remained for the Scottish school under Thomas Reid to combat both the sensualistic philosophy of Voltaire and Locke, and the skepticism of Hume.
From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell
Schleiermacher here alludes to the sensualistic aestheticians of the eighteenth century, and to Hegel, who had almost identified art and religion.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
Kant appeared, and condemned alike the intellectualist and the sensualistic error; but placing the beautiful in a symbol of morality, he failed to discover the imaginative absoluteness of taste.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
It's only too easy to write for those avid of sentimentalism, or to express what Thomas Huxley calls "sensualistic caterwauling."
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
