Differentiating biospheric values from
universalismShimon Peres, with his fondness for a
universalism - an offshoot of his socialist, and later global, inclinations - that was the hallmark of the Left, offered us a New Middle East where both sides were wrong.
The truth of
universalism in Scotland is that it provides a sheen of equality.
For example, the notions of comparison like "diverse," "global," "international," and "transnational" seem to have the aspiration of "more than one," of inclusive multicultural
universalism going beyond restrictive national particularism.
In a portrait of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, the author (a prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, and retired University of California at Berkeley professor) charts Muhammad Ali's evolution from Black Nationalism to
universalism, and gives due credit to the Nation of Islam's and Black Nationalism's important influence on Ali's intellectual development.
Ze'ev Maghen's John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage covers a lot of philosophical territory and crafts arguments against
universalism and rationalism and in defense of religion.
RETHINKING JEWISH PHILOSOPHY: BEYOND PARTICULARISM AND
UNIVERSALISMFindlay said: "I agree with the principle of
universalism but Johann was right to raise the issues she did because it was about saying, 'As a society, what decisions do we want to make?' "Do we take a decision where we finance public services and provide universal services without doing anything about the tax base, or do we not?
How does
universalism or universality relate to other entities, for example, to the socio-legal institution of citizenship or to the phenomenon of societal cohesion?
Contributors also consider whether common European law existed in the early modern period, whether cosmopolitanism can be observed in the cultural discourses of the 19th century Ottoman and Russian empires, and whether Napoleonic constitutionalism paved the way for legal
universalism.
I would have preferred him to repeal the Welfare Reform Act in its entirety and commit to replacing it with a Welfare State based on
universalism.