We may define these courses by the terms esoteric and exoteric - the former the philosophy of the school, cultivated principally at the universities, trying to systematize everything and reduce all our knowledge to an intelligible principle, losing in this attempt the deeper meaning of Leibnitz's philosophy; the latter the unsystematized philosophy of general culture which we find in the work of the great writers of the classical period, Lessing, Winkelmann, Goethe, Schiller and Herder, all of whom expressed in some degree their indebtedness to Leibnitz. [Please select]
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The bent of his mind was towards philosophical speculation, to which he had been attracted in his youthful studies of Scaliger's "Exoteric Exercises". [Please select]
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But his one long dream was the only thing for which he cared; and though in an exoteric sense this dream came true, its truth was but a mockery. [Please select]
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Baader distinguishes a twofold creation of the world and a double process of development (an esoteric and an exoteric revelation) of God himself. [Please select]
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It is easy to point out the different modes of government, and we have already settled them in our exoteric discourses. [Please select]
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I do not mean to insinuate thereby, sir, that you have (to use the phraseology of the schools) an ESOTERIC and an EXOTERIC doctrine,--that, secretly believing in equality, you defend property only from motives of prudence and by command. [Please select]
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Corresponding with this division, he also was in the habit of classifying his writings as Acroatic or technical, and Exoteric or popular. [Please select]
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