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Universalism is the philosophical concept and a theological concept within Christianity [1] that some ideas have universal application or applicability.
The report calls for “targeted proportionate universalism” to help level up communities with the “most entrenched” poverty. It says: “This can be done not only at a local authority level ...
Moreover, economists have argued that universalism is an investment in human capital that aids the development of a nation as a whole. [21] The World Bank 's 2019 World Development Report The Changing Nature of Work [ 22 ] considers social protection from this perspective, describing existing schemes around the world and presenting simulation ...
The latter kind of universalism is called particularism (see Cox and McCubbins’ universalism‐within‐party hypothesis). [11] Weingast notes that universalism should not be taken as the sole definition of distributive politics and that “universalism is one principle among many that govern congressional behavior over distributive politics ...
The concept of universalizability was set out by the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.It is part of the first formulation of his categorical imperative, which states that the only morally acceptable maxims of our actions are those that could rationally be willed to be universal law.
Moral universalism (also called moral objectivism) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for "all similarly situated individuals", [1] regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other distinguishing feature. [2]
In philosophy, universality or absolutism is the idea that universal facts exist and can be progressively discovered, as opposed to relativism, which asserts that all facts are relative to one's perspective. [1] [2] Absolutism and relativism have been explored at length in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Members of the Universalist Church of America claimed universalist beliefs among some early Christians such as Origen. [5] [6] Richard Bauckham in Universalism: a historical survey ascribes this to Platonist influence, and notes that belief in the final restoration of all souls seems to have been not uncommon in the East during the fourth and fifth centuries and was apparently taught by ...