sensualism
/ˈsɛnʃuəˌlɪzəm/
noun
- A way of thinking or living that focuses on physical pleasure and the senses, especially in art, philosophy, or lifestyle.
- Some philosophers argue that sensualism can lead to a shallow understanding of happiness.
- The novel explores the tension between spiritual values and sensualism in modern society.
- The artist's work was criticized for its focus on sensualism rather than deeper meaning.
- In philosophy, the theory that all knowledge comes from sense experience.
- Sensualism in philosophy claims that nothing exists in the mind that was not first in the senses.
- The professor contrasted sensualism with rationalism in her lecture on epistemology.
- Many early empiricists were influenced by sensualism as a theory of knowledge.
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