exoteric

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.

   “In one of his works he [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] has ascribed to [Immanuel] Kant the foppery of an exoteric and an esoteric doctrine; and that upon grounds wholly untenable.”

2. sıfat Of a person: not part of an enlightened inner circle; not privy to esoteric knowledge.

   “Near-synonym: uninitiated”

3. sıfat Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public; accessible; also, having an obvious application.

   “[H]e vvill alvvays aſſiſt a careful and accurate examiner in reſcuing the eſoteric purity of his doctrines from that leſs amiable appearance in vvhich their exoteric garb repreſents them.”

4. sıfat External.

   “[M]y Deſign […] is not to Theologize in Philoſophy, but to dravv an Exoterick Fence or exteriour Fortification about Theologie; […]”

5. sıfat Having wide currency; popular, prevalent.
6. isim A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not privy to esoteric knowledge.

   “I am an exoteric—utterly unable to explain the mysteries of this new poetical faith. I only know that it is a faith, which except a man do keep pure and undefiled, without doubt he shall be called a blockhead.”