Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., various vendors, merchants and manufacturers will be trying to convince students, faculty and staff that their gizmo is the absolute tops. The Happy Hacker is looking forward to several booths in particular...
Homer said that a particular effort is beingmade to encourage minority students to considerthe program since "minorities and women are reallyunderrepresented in college faculties...
Michael Walzer believes that this kind of strategy, which he identifies with thinkers such as John Rawls, is less likely to be used--let alone used successfully--than the second. Asking your roommate to distance herself from her circumstances is, Walzer argues, to ask her to stand "nowhere in particular", a bizarre request which she will rightly find implausible...
WALZER'S ARGUMENT that the social critic is less damaging and more constructive if he uses arguments internal to a particular society's experience is likewise provocative but inconclusive. In other writings, he has insisted that people should enjoy the right of self-determination--not because their particular histories embody such rights but because they are human beings...
...going too far to argue that Jewish communitarians such as Walzer and Sandel are engaged in a moving but ultimately very particular struggle to synthesize two moral languages, that of American democracy on the one hand and that of the Jewish shtetl on the other? Such an argument would account for Walzer often slipping into a language of universal human rights. But it would explain equally well why Walzer finds in textual criticism his model for social criticism. Has not the community of which he is a part survived by finding a homeland in religious texts...