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- adjective Alternative spelling of
propaedeutic .
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Examples
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(“Aristotle's Categories, with notes and as a propadeutic to a new theory of thinking”), (Berlin: Ernst Felisch, 1794).
Salomon Maimon Thielke, Peter 2007
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Because of this, the development of moral ideas is the “true propadeutic” for taste (§60, 356).
Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology Ginsborg, Hannah 2005
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Aesthetic experience serves as a propadeutic for morality, in that “the beautiful prepares us to love something, even nature, without interest; the sublime, to esteem it, even contrary to our (sensible) interest” (General Remark following §29, 267).
Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology Ginsborg, Hannah 2005
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Neoplatonism not only had a propadeutic significance in the past, but continues to be, even now, the source of all the moods which deny the world and strive after an ideal, but have not power to raise themselves above æsthetic feeling, and see no means of getting a clear notion of the impulse of their own heart and the land of their desire.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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“propadeutic” and “training” are synonyms used for this division of science; for it is like a science that trains, teaches, or serves the other two divisions.
Samuel Ibn Tibbon Robinson, James T. 2006
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