(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.
Utilitarian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society.
(n.) One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
(2) Morally questionable in their utilitarian approach, RCTs are claimed by some to be in direct violation of the second form of Kant's Categorical Imperative.
(3) Gillon rejects each of these arguments, contending that avoiding deceit is a basic moral norm that can be defended from utilitarian as well as deontological points of view.
(4) The epidemiologist is concerned with the scientific ethic which is duty-based, related to deontology or to rule utilitarian theories of ethics.
(5) All major political parties ground their work environment policies in utilitarian concepts that trade worker health and safety for economic considerations.
(6) This technique represents a utilitarian approach to stability screening of compounds in solution, aqueous or otherwise, where chromatographic separation and analytical methodology for the pure compound are available.
(7) DCMS secretary Maria Miller last week promised to fight for the arts: untouched by loftier values her leaden utilitarianism in calling the arts a "compelling product" came under fire, but she did lay out a good commercial case.
(8) This utilitarian feature allows the surgeon to eliminate residual anteroposterior traction following complete membrane peeling by extending relaxing retinotomies and tacking the posterior cut edge of the retina securely between the ora serrata and the equator.
(9) We document how plants are utilized by each culture for nutritional, medicinal, and functional (utilitarian) purposes and aim to investigate if these uses arose independently through a parallel experimentation process or were learned by one tribe from the other.
(10) Brooks defends his 1984 article, "Dignity and cost effectiveness: a rejection of the utilitarian approach to death," from criticisms in an editorial and companion articles by George S. Robertson and John Harris that appeared in the September 1984 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
(11) The utilitarian function of the study of human hair growth is illustrated.
(12) Finally, we propose a model that may be useful for lessening the conflict between retributive and utilitarian perspectives.
(13) And also, undoubtedly, because the car and the artwork are both commodity fetishes whose place in culture is more than utilitarian.
(14) The ethical values of human life slightly took up the position of utilitarian.
(15) Wedgwood's fondness for good, plain, utilitarian ware – hence his claim "We shall conquer the world" – has also helped in the past decade.
(16) The problem of setting priorities is discussed within the framework of utilitarianism, right-based theories and the contractarian theory of John Rawls.
(17) He maintains that the utilitarian principle of maximizing happiness by improving health, minimizing suffering, and prolonging life is not promoted by granting physicians the authority to deceive patients or to make decisions for them in areas of moral and subjective choice.
(18) Opened last year by the Irish Youth Hostel Association ( anoige.ie ), its somewhat institutional architecture, utilitarian concrete floors and Ikea furnishings may be too spartan for some, but the bright interiors and views of Glencree valley more than compensated.
(19) The 'moral right principle' is compared with the well-known utilitarianism and 'the worst-off principle'.
(20) They’ve turned our utilitarian product into a thing of luxury.