| 释义 |
eclecticism|ɛˈklɛktɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. eclectic + -ism.]
a. The eclectic philosophy; the eclectic method applied to speculation or practice.
1798Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 1 There arose a sort of Eclecticism, which discouraged party-spirit, and recommended philosophical discretion. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iv. 124 Abstracted selfishness..in its modern guise of philosophic eclecticism. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1877) I. vi. 107 Eclecticism, conciliation, union were..the grand aim of the Alexandrian school. 1838Emerson Lit. Ethics Wks. (Bohn) II. 212 The French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive. 1881Westcott & Hort N.T. Grk. II. 246 The eclecticism of the Syrian revisers.
b. concr. The product of an eclectic method.
1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. i. xii. (1876) 278 What is a man but a finer..landscape than the horizon figures,—nature's eclecticism? |