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'''Sensualism''' is the persistent or excessive pursuit of sensual pleasures and interests <ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensualism</ref><ref>http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sensualist</ref> In philosophy it refers to the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good. In [[epistemology|theory of knowledge]] (also called sensationalism or sensism<ref>{{Cite book|title=Meditations on Quixote|author=[[José Ortega y Gasset]]|author2=[[Julián Marías]] |others=trans. Evelyn Rugg and Diego Marín|publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]]|date=2000|page=85|isbn=0-252-06895-5|url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=RlfnPj3sXt0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false}}</ref>) it is a doctrine whereby [[Sensation and perception psychology|sensations]] and [[perception]] are the basic and most important form of true [[cognition]]. It may oppose abstract ideas. This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in [[Greek philosophy]] ([[Stoicism]], [[Epicureanism]]) and further developed to the full by the English Sensualists ([[John Locke]], [[David Hume]]) and the [[Associationism|English Associationists]] ([[Thomas Brown]], David Hartley, Joseph Priestley). In the 19the century |
'''Sensualism''' is the persistent or excessive pursuit of sensual pleasures and interests <ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensualism</ref><ref>http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sensualist</ref> In philosophy it refers to the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good. In [[epistemology|theory of knowledge]] (also called sensationalism or sensism<ref>{{Cite book|title=Meditations on Quixote|author=[[José Ortega y Gasset]]|author2=[[Julián Marías]] |others=trans. Evelyn Rugg and Diego Marín|publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]]|date=2000|page=85|isbn=0-252-06895-5|url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=RlfnPj3sXt0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false}}</ref>) it is a doctrine whereby [[Sensation and perception psychology|sensations]] and [[perception]] are the basic and most important form of true [[cognition]]. It may oppose abstract ideas. This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in [[Greek philosophy]] ([[Stoicism]], [[Epicureanism]]) and further developed to the full by the English Sensualists ([[John Locke]], [[David Hume]]) and the [[Associationism|English Associationists]] ([[Thomas Brown]], [[David Hartley]], [[Joseph Priestley]]). In the 19the century it was very much taken up by the [[Positivism|Positivists]] ([[John Stuart Mill]], [[Herbert Spencer]], [[Auguste Comte]], [[Hippolyte Taine]], [[Émile Littré]])<ref>According to [[Arthur Schopenhauer|Schopenhauer]], this judgment was attributed to [[Aristotle]]. Schopenhauer presents the Latin version as ''Nihil est in intellectu nisi quod antea fuerit in sensu''. See ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'', Volume II, Chapter VII. It is possible that it was mentioned by the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] [[Cicero]] and was repeated by [[Augustine of Hippo]] and [[Thomas Aquinas]].</ref><ref>http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=9313 |
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Sensualism is the persistent or excessive pursuit of sensual pleasures and interests [1][2] In philosophy it refers to the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good. In theory of knowledge (also called sensationalism or sensism[3]) it is a doctrine whereby sensations and perception are the basic and most important form of true cognition. It may oppose abstract ideas. This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in Greek philosophy (Stoicism, Epicureanism) and further developed to the full by the English Sensualists (John Locke, David Hume) and the English Associationists (Thomas Brown, David Hartley, Joseph Priestley). In the 19the century it was very much taken up by the Positivists (John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Auguste Comte, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Littré)[4][5]
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- ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensualism
- ^ http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sensualist
- ^ José Ortega y Gasset; Julián Marías (2000). Meditations on Quixote. trans. Evelyn Rugg and Diego Marín. University of Illinois Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-252-06895-5.
- ^ According to Schopenhauer, this judgment was attributed to Aristotle. Schopenhauer presents the Latin version as Nihil est in intellectu nisi quod antea fuerit in sensu. See The World as Will and Representation, Volume II, Chapter VII. It is possible that it was mentioned by the Stoic Cicero and was repeated by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.
- ^ http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=9313
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