That ultimately this very moral imperative taken as absolute requires that we should treat all other moral imperatives as relative until, by a process of honest inquiry, we can decide, to our honest satisfaction, that, to the best of our knowledge, the action predicated by this imperative is indeed essentially capable of being universalised. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
Obscurity and unaccountability start to integrate with a new interest in shielding the grounds of individuality — its supposed inner, ontological roots — from representation, particularly representation according to the universalised laws of physics and logic. ❋ Unknown (2008)
O'Brien, Caputo and Kovic, among others, universalised Vietnam? whose jargon passed into the common currency of the time? as a shorthand for the madness of a jungle war. ❋ By Robert McCrum (2010)
How this awareness led to the Jewish innovation of a hidden and universal God, how the cosmopolitan early Christians, in order to market their doctrines more successfully, universalised and sanitised this Jewish God in turn, and how Islam equally included a civilising universalism despite its doctrinal rigidity and founding violence. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
The modern human rights version of universal principles is wrong, she says, and not to be universalised; but "the culturally particular principles to be applied universally" derived from Judaism are right and should be applied universally. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From here it is only a small step to the Law Code of Hamurabi, the Mosaic Law, and monotheism as a universalised, legislative anthropomorphism that denies its own athropomorphism with a God whose face must not be drawn, whose name must not be spoken. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)
That it has been universalised, co-opted, as a validation of homophobia because in a modern context it is a validation of homophobia. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)
To describe it as a love poem is an affront to Shelley (and to Mrs. Shelley, with whom Shelley was very much in love, though she was not the subject of the poem); he has so widened and universalised the meaning of love as to render it, rather, a hymn to the human spirit. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is of course another story that the repression let loose on the Naxalite movement under the UF regime did not spare the CPIM and eventually the anti-Naxalite semi-fascist terror was universalised as anti-Left and even anti-Opposition repression during the infamous reign of Emergency. ❋ Abhay N (2007)
He falsified or ignored every fact that did not support his philosophy, which was based on a narrow reading of western history, then universalised to cover the whole world. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Hence, rights tend to be universalised (importantly, across nations) as the telos of each nation converges. ❋ Tyler, Colin (2006)
The Panel's recommendation that the Commission's membership be universalised could be one way of achieving this. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In making the Jews conquerors, Alroy has universalised Judaism and destroyed the particularist motivation of many of his fighters. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The western culture - American, to be specific - is being universalised. ❋ Unknown (2002)
This fact should be legitimised and universalised in all international activities. ❋ Unknown (1980)
Now turn this new purified and universalised gaze back upon yourself. ❋ 1875-1941 (1915)
