What's the difference between particularist and universalist?
Particularist
Definition:
(n.) One who holds to particularism.
Example Sentences:
(1) If anything I favor the particularist position with respect to the impossibility of directly applying diagnostic categories across cultural boundaries.
(2) It is concluded that the policy culture surrounding the introduction and use of these drugs is highly particularistic.
(3) The focus on nerves addresses the universalist-particularist debate and illuminates the differential experience of nerves between men and women.
(4) Professional performance has been directed toward diagnosis and cure; consequently, a particularistic view dominates.
(5) In terms of the types of resources subjects gave and received from their dating partner, more particularistic and more symbolic resources were exchanged in continuing couples only later.
(6) The findings demonstrate empirically the importance for future research of conceptualizing the grandparent-grandchild tie as both particularistic and mediated through a biological and an in-law-child.
(7) The ethic of caring is problematic because caring, being contextual, is particularistic and therefore can be based on morally irrelevant factors, such as liking.
(8) There is a tradition of writing which seeks to reconcile the particularistic obligations of friendship with the moral duty to all others equally.
(9) This paper does not attempt to play the role of broker between universalists and particularists.
(10) Traditional views concerning God's revelation to Israel are shown to underlie the methodological orientation of classical Jewish ethics, which is both legalistic and particularistic.
Universalist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.
(n.) One who affects to understand all the particulars in statements or propositions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Unversalists of their doctrines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are partially consistent with theories describing the gradual growth of universalistic patterns of stratification and mobility.
(2) If you ask George W Bush what is America, he would be like, ‘a universalistic, eternal force of democracy and capitalism for all times’.
(3) Rather they worked within a universalist moral framework that stressed freedom and emancipation for all humanity.
(4) Across these texts and others, three main objections recur: that the idea of the Anthropocene is arrogant, universalist and capitalist-technocratic.
(5) They think it is the same universalist service as the NHS.
(6) The review reveals that a universalist theoretical perspective, which tends to obscure the role of local interpretations in the phenomenology of psychiatric illness, dominates this field of inquiry.
(7) Rather than universalistic humanitarian service (à la Hippocrates), this study of private practice illustrates that medicine has been commoditised and is now a lucrative business much like the sale of beer and other commodities.
(8) The dominant view of the midwifery profession is universalistic.
(9) That view is pitted against a liberal universalist one that sees us in some sense equally obligated to all human beings, from Bolton to Burundi - an idea that is associated with the universalist aspects of Christianity and Islam, with Kantian universalism and with left-wing internationalism.
(10) The implications of this in relation to universalistic ideas of normal and abnormal are discussed.
(11) Putin will be rubbing his hands at the prospect of Brexit | Guy Verhofstadt Read more But for universalists – those of us who believe democracy, freedom, human rights and social justice are universal principles that all humans should enjoy, irrespective of who or where they are – that shouldn’t be good enough.
(12) Universalist, because the Anthropocene assumes a generalised anthropos , whereby all humans are equally implicated and all equally affected.
(13) Two assume that research ethics are culturally relative and two assume that a unified, universalistic conceptualization of research ethics is possible.
(14) Alaba is adamant that the credit for his emergence as a football universalist does not lie so much with him as with Guardiola.
(15) The wisdom of exporting a failing model from means-tested social care to our universalist NHS is even more questionable – unless the plan of policymakers is to use it as a stalking horse for a very different kind of health service, more like social care, based on charging, rationing and much more privatisation.
(16) It has restored the link to earnings of the long-neglected state pension, protected the universalist NHS and – up to a point – schools.
(17) The focus on nerves addresses the universalist-particularist debate and illuminates the differential experience of nerves between men and women.
(18) As linguists such as Noam Chomsky began to redefine what it meant to study human language, linguistics generally swung from Whorf-style relativist positions to a more universalist approach, in which scholars tried to discover the general principles of language.
(19) The welfare states of the postwar era were rights-based and, in principle, universalist.
(20) It is one thing to be universalist, anti-racist and pro-human rights when looking back, but it takes a more reflexive attitude to history to account for the structure of the present through past wrongs, and our place within that historical context.