sensualistic

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I will not seek whether the sensualistic metaphysics can arrive at an infinite being, author of the universe and man.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

All there in that old world, lit "by the strong vertical light" of Homer's genius, is healthful, sharply-defined, tangible, definite, and sensualistic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

We fear that even the confession of sensualistic atheism by Solovieff will not prevent his memory from being cherished by thousands of his countrymen.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

One thing is certain, we cannot go back to the old dogmatic standpoint, whether rationalistic or sensualistic.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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