Word Finder - subjectivism

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The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.

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The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition

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The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.

Feuerbach labours under the same difficulty as Fichte; both thinkers strive in vain to reconcile the religious consciousness with subjectivism.

The conflict of idealism with these two lines of criticism - the accusation of subjectivism on the one side of intellectualism and rigid objectivism on the other - may be said to have constituted the history of Anglo-Saxon philosophy during the first decade of the 20th century.

To treat the actual forms of religion as expressions of our various human needs is a fruitful idea which deserves fuller development than it has yet received; but Feuerbach's treatment of it is fatally vitiated by his subjectivism.

The deeper spiritual intuition, present from the first, was only brought into clear relief in order to meet difficulties in the earlier statements, and the extension of the intuition itself beyond the limits of our own consciousness, which completely removes his position from mere subjectivism, rests on foundations uncritically assumed, and at first sight irreconcilable with certain positions of his system.

The faith of science looks outward as in the dawn of Greek philosophy, and subjectivism such as Hume's has as yet no hold.

The fault was not wholly in the subjectivism of the movement.

The tendency towards what may be technically called subjectivism, a tendency which differentiates the modern from the ancient method of speculation, is expressed in Locke and Leibnitz in a definite and peculiar fashion.

What we might call unconstrained subjectivism places no constraints on the agents -- anyone goes, and hence anything goes.

In what way does ethical subjectivism positively incorporate a relativist position?

First, some version of perceptual subjectivism is probably correct, with the adverbial theory being the more promising of the two main alternatives.

In what way do Vardy and Grosch confuse Emotivism with ' simple subjectivism '?

Philosophical subjectivism also raises serious doubts about the possibility of certain (or indubitable) knowledge.

But the subjectivism that founded its theology on the "common sense" of the individual was accompanied by a fatal pseudouniversalism which, cutting away all that was peculiar, individual and most intense in all religions, left in any one of them but a lifeless form.

It is the only position that avoids subjectivism, relativism and mysticism.