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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Particularism"”.
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Community unions in Baltimore and Long Island : beyond the politics of particularism
This dissertation explores newly emergent community-based organizations that are tackling work and wage issues at the local level and includes two lengthy case studies of the Workplace Project in Long Island and Solidarity in Baltimore. The thesis is built upon five interconnected claims. First, …
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’. This thesis consists of an interdisciplinary research on an aesthetic particularism mentioned by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss as “The split representation in the Art of Asia …
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Casuistry: Towards a More Complete Approach
… I argue that insights taken from the theory of particularism can provide the theoretical support that casuistry is currently lacking. Particularism is a theory which argues that one has good reason to believe that universal and absolute ethical principles do not exist. Rather due to epistemic …
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Nodes without roads : pockets of success, networks of failure in Chinese industrial technology development
… Chinese firms to associate, learn, and innovate. Particularism and strategic culture interact to undermine reciprocity and trust, weakening the ability of Chinese industrial firms to form effective horizontal association. As observed in economies from the developed (e.g. United States) to the …
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EARLY CONFUCIAN ETHICAL REASONING BETWEEN GENERALITY AND PARTICULARITY
… discussed in the contemporary debate on moral particularism upon the ethical thinking evidenced in early Confucian literature such as the Analects, the Odes and the Documents.
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The particular and the general : essays at the interface of ethics and epistemology
… those two fields. In chapter 1, I consider particularism, a relatively recent view which holds that, because reasons for action and belief are irreducibly context-dependent, the traditional quest for a general theory of what one ought to do or believe is doomed for failure. In making these …
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Universal Morality in Japanese Tradition
… the debate on moral universalism versus cultural particularism by reassessing two common assumptions: 1) that traditions are either universal or particular, and 2) that persuasion is the appropriate method of cross-cultural conversation. Examining Japan?s Shinto, a seemingly particularist creed, I …
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Neoliberal Planning in Practice: Use Value or Exchange Value? A Post-Positivist Investigation of Auckland’s Housing Affordability Issues
… bridges the dichotomies between universalism and particularism. Based on this feature of political discourse theory, this thesis establishes a coherent analytical framework, articulating conceptual dialogue between particularism and universalism and Lefebvre’s spatial triad theory: conceived …
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An evaluation of the soteriology of John Murray
… but which nevertheless suited his purpose of particularism. Even accepting that Calvin’s theology was slightly more Christological than Murray’s, both men over emphasised the sovereignty o f God, in their zeal to protect salvation from human autonomy. To counterbalance Murray’s over reliance …
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LA PROPRIETÀ COLLETTIVA IN ITALIA, CON PARTICOLARE ATTENZIONE AI TERRITORI DELL'EX STATO PONTIFICIO, E IN SPAGNA LA PROPIEDAD COLECTIVA EN ITALIA, CON ESPECIAL ATENCIÓN A LOS TERRITORIOS DEL EX ESTADO PONTIFICIO, Y EN ESPAÑA
… property, so deeply rooted in territorial particularism, proves to be a wide and common phenomenon that can be found, with the same characteristics, even in distant times and places. The present research, carried out in a comparative key and developed through the search and analysis of …
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Charles Sanders Peirce, the Extraordinary Moment, and Musical Affect
… pathologies---iconic substitution, indexical particularism, and symbolic disconnection---can be identified as the result of favoring one type of sign over another, which should typically cause a change in habits. In conclusion, the study of 'extraordinary' moments suggests a view of reality …
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An examination of Kenyan and U.S. American communication styles and value orientations in a U.S. American organization in Nairobi, Kenya
… high and low context; and universalism and particularism. The methodology used for this study included phone interviews and an extensive survey, which provided anecdotal evidence on how individuals experience and interpret the differences in these values. The interpretation of the data …
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Judgement as play: revealing analogies between aesthetics and ethics
… they save from subjectivism a moral theory, particularism, which relies on individual judgement rather than moral rules. Seeing the activity of judgement as play suggests a conception of the outcome of judgement as picturing. This conception helps to make sense of reason-giving within the …
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling
… to home that does not succumb to narrow national particularism nor to rootless, global cosmopolitanism.
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Inter-Ethnic Relations on New England's Frontier: A Survey of the Formative Period
… population. While fragmented by tribal particularism and internecine warfare, the native New Englanders were beset on all sides by enemies, European and Indian. Though willing, at first, to contest a permanent European colonial effort, their cultural resiliency was undermined by disease, …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
… Ramasamy and Fanon, I explore the limits of particularism and the needs of universalism, making a case for a constitutive, but conditional, pluralism.
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Colonialism, Customary Authority, and Constitutionalism: Rethinking Gender, Justice, and Tenure Reform in South Africa through Ubuntu and Intersectionality
… constitutional universality and customary particularism. The thesis concludes that a transformative approach to tenure reform requires bringing relational ethics into dialogue with structural analysis, thereby advancing a vision of justice that is both culturally grounded and …
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Prometheus unbound: quality of government and institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement
… Republic and Hungary even this effect increases particularism.
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Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa
… in articulating and affirming its cultural particularism. Death as Poetics of Dislocation surveys a gradual distancing from this position in the works of René Depestre, Maryse Condé and Santiago Gamboa and argues that representations of death function as the means to question notions of …
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Universalism and the theology of Paul
… of insider/outsider language strongly support particularism. This conclusion is sustained by the universalist texts themselves which often fit into particularist themes.
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