English language
Toggle Transcript
quietist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mystic, religious mystic |
| Derivation | quietism |
Examples of quietist
quietist
His quietist abstraction is of no use to a woman who has to battle daily to survive.
From the latimes.com
The quietist tradition obviously rests on the Prophet as sovereign, as judge and statesman.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He generally followed a quietist political stance toward the Abbasid political establishment.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the quietist model in Iraq, Sistani would be considered the owner, but perhaps an absentee one.
From the washingtonpost.com
But despite his reputation as a quietist, he is no mere academic.
From the economist.com
Mostly a maker of quietist, observational films, she's a surprising choice to create the next Turbine Hall Commission.
From the guardian.co.uk
Norman Malcolm, a friend of Wittgenstein's, took a quietist approach to sceptical problems in the philosophy of mind.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More recently, two other philosophers to take an explicitly quietist position are John McDowell and Richard Rorty.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The history of Belarus, to the north, has been if anything still more traumatic, and its political culture is still more quietist.
From the economist.com
- A religious mystic who follows quietism
- (quietism) a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
- Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist, with more or less emphasis, on intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection. ...
- Quietism in philosophy is an approach to the subject that sees the role of philosophy as broadly therapeutic or remedial. ...
- (quietistic) Of or relating to quietism, a philosophy of passivity and non-involvement
- (Quietists) A type of religious mysticism which arose within the Roman Catholic Church in Italy and Spain during the latter half of the 17th century, especially in connection with a priest named Miguel de Molinos, who published his Spiritual Guide in Rome in 1675. ...
- (QUIETISM) a doctrine of Christian spirituality that, in general, holds that perfection consists in passivity (quiet) of the soul, in the suppression of human effort so that divine action may have full play. ...
