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Intellectualist

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in·tel·lec·tu·al·ism  (ntl-kch--lzm)
n.
1. Exercise or application of the intellect.
2. Devotion to exercise or development of the intellect.

intel·lectu·al·ist n.
intel·lectu·al·istic adj.

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Without embracing his intellectualist approach entirely, it seems to me that Manent is correct to underscore the possibility of a far-ranging agreement about certain premises among thinkers who would not otherwise have much in common.
It is to that community that Sidney owes his tyrannomachist politics, his natural law theory, his intellectualist assumptions, and his anthropology, as well as his identification of tyranny with self-love.
9) Malek Bennabi's views can best be described as gradualist and even intellectualist, which explains their minimal influence among the more radical Islamists of the 1980s and 1990s who evolved in a period of social marginalization and socio-economic hardship.
 
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