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subjectivism
[suhb-jek-tuh-viz-uhm]
noun
Epistemology.the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
Ethics.
any of various theories maintaining that moral judgments are statements concerning the emotional or mental reactions of the individual or the community.
any of several theories holding that certain states of thought or feeling are the highest good.
subjectivism
/ əˈɛɪˌɪə /
noun
the meta-ethical doctrine that there are no absolute moral values but that these are variable in the same way as taste is
any similar philosophical theory, for example, about truth or perception
any theological theory that attaches primary importance to religious experience
the quality or condition of being subjective
Other Word Forms
- subjectivist noun
- subjectivistic adjective
- subjectivistically adverb
- ܲˌپˈپ adjective
- ܲˌپˈپally adverb
- ܲˈپ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of subjectivism1
Example Sentences
Like their Nazi precursors, the Communist rulers of East Germany scorn the subjectivism and decadence of modernist art.
Our academic system, from pre-K through graduate school, contrasts science and literature – objectivism and subjectivism, reductionism and holism.
All subjectivism, all relativism, all criticism, therefore, are baffled in presence of the ego.
The fault was not wholly in the subjectivism of the movement.
Dewey favors the naïve standpoint, and affirms that presentative realism is tainted by an epistemological subjectivism.
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