(previously known as "totalism"), class is still the central concern. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Ellis] Reference
If there is a "cybernetic totalism" in Facebook, it lies in our own desire to make our own lives closed, self-regulating systems. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Elkus: Facebook and the Database Society] Reference
This totalism becomes vulnerable to a totalitarianism without an unceasing insistence on the phenomenological practice of the alienness of the familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Given its integral scope, this runs the danger of a totalism of unprecedented scale if an ideological construction takes priority over a praxis based on immanent becoming. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
Traditional forms of consequentialism, including both the total form of consequentialism (“totalism”) and the average form of consequentialism (“averagism”), have the resources to explain how an act can be wrong while making things worse for no one. From Wordnik.com. [The Nonidentity Problem] Reference
Some critics of current movements in science and technology such as Jaron Lanier denounce the legacy of cybernetics as something that gave rise to "cybernetic totalism" -- a system of beliefs that views all of the processes of life as interactions of information. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Elkus: Facebook and the Database Society] Reference
I have already pointed to this kind of transubtantiation of the lower into the higher (or the ignoble into the noble form) in the case of "solidarity" (or universality) into "unanimity"; of the transubtantiation of the whole idiom of "totalism" into "wholism"; of all logic and monologic into ecologic and dialogic. From Wordnik.com. [Blake, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo] Reference
Robert Lifton, the distinguished psychologist and author of many books, including Thought Reform and the Psychology of totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China (1961), defined cults in a 1981 letter in the Harvard Mental Health Letter as an "aspect of a worldwide epidemic of ideological totalism, or fundamentalism.". From Wordnik.com. [Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing] Reference
The title of the chapter, and the core term discussed, is "ideological totalism.". From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Tearing apart the ruling ideologies of Silicon Valley's "cybernetic totalism" and its. From Wordnik.com. [Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
His totalism known as, 'The Trujillo Era', is referred to as, one of the bloodiest in the 20th century. From Wordnik.com. Reference
No milieu ever achieves complete totalism, and many relatively moderate environments show some signs of it. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
However, they've just been and cut their own throats, for they've only made me more determined than ever to stick to my tee-totalism. ". From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
If, by waiting a few years to have a child, the 14-year-girl could have produced a better off but nonidentical child, both totalism and averagism will imply (other things being equal) that it was wrong for the girl not to wait (Singer 1999, 122 “ 25). From Wordnik.com. [The Nonidentity Problem] Reference
Such theories retain the aggregative element we see in totalism and averagism ” and hence the ability to address the nonidentity problem ” but incorporate other values as well into their tests for determining whether one outcome is morally better than another and, indirectly, the moral status of acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Nonidentity Problem] Reference
"It don't matter much what you thowt o 'me, old man," returned the cowboy, somewhat sharply; "an ', as to fair-play, there's a lot of men here who don't agree wi' your humbuggin 'notions about temperance an' tee-totalism -- more of 'em, maybe, than you think. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie to the Rescue] Reference
A totalism of dismemberment. From Wordnik.com. [Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange] Reference
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