Word: particularist
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...want a symbol for universal humanity, go to Adam," he says. "Don't go to Abraham, because his whole story is about the singling out of one guy to found a new family, a distinct family marked off from the rest of humanity. He was always a particularist." Another stumbling block between Jews and Muslims is that they are working from two different texts...
Both professors agreed that "particularism versus universalism" is a major issue facing American Jews today. Nozick said the universalist doctrine says one should "care about everybody equally," while a particularist doctrine allows one to care especially about one particular gorup...
Nozick said when he was an undergraduate at Columbia he was an atheist and thought special concern for Jewish issues was parochial. He said the Black student movement and sympathy for Israel during the Six Day War helped make particularist principles acceptable to American Jews. "Whe I was an undergraduate, I would have avoided this lecture," he added...
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