With reference to illness, it is called the personalistic theory of disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Furthermore, this paper shall not deal with the manigfaltigen disease causations or disease etiologies, sometimes classified as personalistic etiologies and naturalistic etiologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Judeo-Christian moral is not individualistic: it is personalistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiring viewing of pre-abortion ultrasounds: I’m with Crist on this one] Reference

Part of the problem, I think, is the same with all personalistic leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Profesora Abstraida] Reference

This gives her the freedom to get into personalistic accusations about Obama and his past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on American Elitism] Reference

The question of "who" caused the disease (personalistic etiology) is, therefore, uncalled for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The Soviet political system is still of the kind in which personalistic leadership is a defining characteristic of politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brezhnev and After] Reference

Nonetheless, it would appear too unpluralistic not to unveil the fact that I have met many times cases of personalistic etiologies in the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Today, Russia has a strikingly personalistic form of political rule that is unusual, if not anachronistic for a highly developed country, in the 21st century.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Russia's Constitutional Ailments] Reference

Today, Russia has a strikingly personalistic form of political rule that is unusual, if not anachronistic for a highly developed country, in the 21st century. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Russia's Constitutional Ailments] Reference

The "damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't" argument is that Catholic teaching is criticized, in a single paragraph, for being both too narrowly naturalistic and too vaguely personalistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-pansexualism: right for (some of) the wrong reasons] Reference

But that flashing, bizarre moment of sociologico-personalistic reduction (public prestige? of psychoanalysis?) registers the extremity of Guillory's need to evacuate de Man's text of self-knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference

From the European viewpoint Luk Bouckaert refers to Henri Bergson 1859-1941, who, as the initiator of the European personalistic movement, introduced in his metaphysics of time the notion of mysticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sri Aurobindo, Bergson, Levinas, Ricoeur] Reference

This is evident in weak party roots in society, less legitimacy accorded to parties and elections by political actors and weak party organisations that have been prone to factionalisation and dominated by personalistic leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political parties do not have to be causally connected to democracy] Reference

"It has to do with the inability of political parties to renew themselves," says Michael Shifter of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue policy-research group, "and a very strong tradition of personalistic rule in Latin America.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blasts From The Past] Reference

For Jacobi's main thesis throughout the otherwise rambling work is that Kant, while upholding personalistic values, had in fact subverted them conceptually, the net product being Fichte's system of ideal materialism and now the openly naturalistic system of Schelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi] Reference

For all his importance in modern German politics, therefore, his philosophy of politics was always slightly anachronistic, and his position remained embedded in the personalistic ideals of statehood which characterized the old-liberal political culture of Imperial Germany and persisted in the conservative-liberal fringes of the Weimar Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karl Jaspers] Reference

The difference in political experience between the northern and southern halves of Vietnam and Korea … was not the difference between dictatorship and democracy but rather the difference between well-organized, broadly based, complex political systems, on the one hand, and unstable, fractured, narrowly based personalistic regimes, on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Wars end] Reference

Cultivating personal relationships with those in power is crucial when interacting with a personalistic political system such as Russia's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress] Reference

However, the incident was the result of the Pope's words being pulled from his defence of the Church's personalistic approach to the AIDS crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CathNews] Reference

If the Legionaries want to become disciples of John Paul in spirit and not just in the bureaucratic approval they wangled from him, let them recognize his "personalistic norm," that human persons are to be respected for their own sakes, not used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

The DPJ's campaign over the summer pointed the way to a new, less personalistic style of politics in which political parties build and maintain national brands and in which national party leaders are capable of disciplining backbenchers and keeping them on message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Observing Japan] Reference

Members of informationally and socially isolated groups tend to display a kind of and become increasingly distrustful or suspicious of the motives of others or of the larger society, falling into a "sinister attribution error." occurs when people feel that they are under pervasive scrutiny, and hence they attribute personalistic motives to outsiders and overestimate the amount of attention they receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [HongPong.com] Reference

It’s true that most of the really vicious killers in postcolonial Africa were personalistic rather then ideological, and that most of the Soviet and Cuban clients were not notably brutal, but their support of the Ethiopian regime is a big black mark on both of them. abb1 says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Good News from Africa] Reference

The plan raises questions of constitutionality in Afghan law, and has a "great man theory" that what is wrong with Afghanistan is personalistic and could be fixed with a new executive officer. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

"Thai politics is still personalistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

"The dictatorship is personalistic in character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Bosanquet's philosophical views were in many ways a reaction to 19th century Anglo-American empiricism and materialism (e.g., that of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and Alexander Bain), but also to that of contemporary personalistic idealism (e.g. that of Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, James Ward, Hastings R.shdall, W.R. Sorley, and J.M.E. McTaggart) and organicism (e.g. Herbert Spencer).    From Wordnik.com.  [My Recycled Soul] Reference