descendentalism

English

Etymology

From descendental +‎ -ism.

Noun

descendentalism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.
   • 1974, Robert Currie, Genius: an ideology in literature:

     Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life.

Coordinate terms

• transcendentalism