| On the contrary, ethics is determinately particularistic, at times veering dangerously close to narcissistic. |
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| While it is tempting to call for a pro-modernity balance, this would only be falling into the one-sided, particularistic trap. |
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| Would the creation of a system of particularistic representation fully address the roots of electoral alienation? |
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| Thus, the exclusivism has two focuses: one universal, the other particularistic. |
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| In general, however, they lose in the course of time this particularistic characteristic. |
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| If this is Western society's hierarchical pecking order, it's no wonder that particularistic groups seek to court and sustain victimhood at every opportunity. |
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| Principles are, as it were, the ribbon we wrap around decisions we have already come to on the basis of particularistic casuistical reasoning. |
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| The good society is centred on a core of substantive, particularistic values. |
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| Evidently, the solution definitely does not lie in eliminating the particularistic aspects of our identity as some would advocate. |
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| Myth is discourse, in narrative form, which incorporates and illustrates timeless truths through particularistic stories or examples. |
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| There is nothing wrong with a humanitarian intent, but one must always be sceptical of particularistic motives hiding behind the assertion of a universalist ethic. |
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| In the longer term, however, the sovereign state, in alliance with liberal ideals, moved beyond particularistic notions of justice to universal ones. |
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| However, since most religions have stressed their particularistic side, human society has been strongly particularistic in character. |
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| The evolutionists felt that particularistic culture histories were immaterial in their quest for lawlike statements about the human condition and thus dismissed many of Boas's statements as mere truisms. |
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| It would also serve the EU better to take a more particularistic approach to Africa by tailoring policies to individual states, rather than taking a holistic one that cannot hope to deal with a continent the size of Africa. |
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| The reason is simple: particularistic representation would not address all of the issues resulting in the alienation of Aboriginal individuals and nations from the Canadian political system. |
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| Those divisions are analyzed through the regrouping of land, the providing of collective social services as the development of enterprises who reflect commercial and particularistic interests. |
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| This could readily be facilitated using a system of particularistic or guaranteed representation that provided for some semblance of national or treaty representation. |
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