Talk:Intellectualism

message: In this article, which is very frugal, nothing is mentioned about the "high fly" of intellectualism after the "Enlightenment". I am very sorry about that and reduces this article to nonsense.
Be happy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.129.136.48 (talk) 20:23, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intellectualism, that is it? 

message: There was one section: Edit. Very peculiar. My comment: You touch something but don't want to "think it through".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.129.136.48 (talk) 20:31, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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message: I'm hesitant to claim the this isn't something that wikipedia can have a topic on, because there are many different things I can think of that could be called "intellectualism" - some of which are discussed on this very page. But it's possible for a word to refer to more than one thing, especially if no one topic has rigorously defined it.
I'm not sure the title of this article as is really means much of anything by itself, "intellectual" is just sort of a catch-all you say about someone if you don't have something more specific you can call them. The page should probably be made into a dab.  - car chasm (talk) 04:28, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I came here to say something very similar; I prefer your explanation, but would like to ask why this is separate from the "Intellectual" article. LeonhardEuler27 (talk) 19:20, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this, then? 

message: The problem with characterizing intellectualism as synonymous with philsophical rationalism, as opposed to philsophical empiricism, is that it implies that empiricists aren't intellectuals. In his book, Some Problems of Philosophy, Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy: Longman's, Green and Co., 1911. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Some_Problems_of_Philosophy/NeObBxIPrLAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover William James defines intellectualism thus:  
          'INTELLECTUALISM' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, 
          and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its 
          character, for that is already given. (221)
And the first thing he felt compelled to clarify about this definition was its realation to the classical philosophical disntction between empricism, or the beleif that all of our knowledge is derived from sense experience, and rationalism, or the beleif that at least some of our knowledge is not derived from sense experience:
          Among intellectualists two parties may be distinguished. Rationalizing intellectualists 
          lay stress on deductive and 'dialectic' arguments, making large use of abstract 
          concepts and pure logic (Hegel, Bradley, Taylor, Royce). Empiricist intellectualists 
          are more 'scientific,' and think that the character of the world must be sought in our 
          sensible experiences, and found in hypotheses based exclusively thereon (Clifford, 
          Pearson). (221)
Hence, it cannot be the case, as the third sentence of this article claims, that, "In the field of philosophy, the term intellectualism is synonymous with rationalism, knowledge derived from reason." 
Purechao (talk) 03:48, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  William James con intellectualism as rationalism....