irreflective

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And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.

From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo

But how could we think it, if the only possible life was that one which we intend to think, and not the one with which we think this irreflective life?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Now, my life is rounded; it began with the natural irreflective happiness of childhood, it will close in the reasoned tranquillity of the mature mind. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

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