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Adj.1.totalistic - of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of lifetotalistic - of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion"


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However oddly the Voegelians may use the term "Gnosticism," it is little more than a slur to describe their thought by phrases such as "the kind of totalistic thinking that one finds in the communist," "a term of political abuse for dissidents," and "fetish for order.
But there is hubris and there is hubris: uniting the Arab world under the rubric of a totalistic national-cultural ideology such as Arab nationalism, usually by coercion; forcing the Arabs of the Middle East to accept Persian hegemony; using one's vast funds to disseminate a peculiar, acutely bigoted brand of Islam such as Saudi Arabia has done for decades, are not really comparable to installing representative government in a country (Iraq) that was until 2003 ruled by a mass murderer.
Erasmus's suggestion that a male tutor should intervene in early childhood is unusual, and Montaigne's education from infancy by his father and a tutor, carried on in a language--classical Latin, the badge of the male fraternity of the academic elite, which Montaigne learned "while I was nursing and before the first loosening of my tongue" (7)--was perhaps unique, more totalistic even than the paternal tuition of John Stuart Mill as recorded in the latter's Autobiography.
 
 
 
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