sensualism

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The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good
The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism

He repudiated any supposed dowry of original truths or innate or connate ideas, and endeavored to show how, by acting on the report of the senses and personal experience, the understanding arrives at all the ideas of which it is conscious. The mode of procedure in this case is empiricism; the result with Locke was sensualism,--more fully developed by Condillac, in the next century.

Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs
{i} sensuality, indulgence in physical or sensory pleasures; principle that goodness is judged by gratification of the senses (Philosophy)
The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality
The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good
The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism
(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
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A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations
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{n} one devoted to carnal pleasures
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someone who is only interested in physical pleasure
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One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness
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One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism
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{i} one who indulges in physical or sensory pleasures; one who supports the principle of sensualism (Philosophy)
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a person who enjoys sensuality
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Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism
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{s} pertaining to the indulgence of physical or sensory pleasures; adhering to the principle of sensualism (Philosophy)
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