The Semantic Web, Universalist Ambition and Some Lessons from Librarianship by Terrence A. Brooks

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Specialists and generalists by I. V. Anokhov

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HUMAN CONDITION IN A GLOBALIZED SOCIETY OF RISKS AS A SOCIAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEM by А. М. Yermolenko

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Les Français de Londres, pas tous expatriés by Diane Le Luyer

“…Designed from a modern and universalist perspective, the public policies are based on a valuable image of the population established abroad that can be used to capitalise on the pursuit of a soft power agenda. …”
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Faut-il en finir avec la Charte de Venise ? by Claudine Houbart

“…This article reflects on the reasons behind the persistent attachment to this charter, with its generalist and universalist ambitions, at a time when a holistic approach to heritage is expected to emerge from fragmented knowledge. …”
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Discernment as "not knowing" and "knowing": a perspective from Matthew 25:31-46 by H. C. van Zyl

“…It is suggested that the traditional particularist and universalist interpretations need not oppose each other. …”
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Rôle joué par l’économie informelle dans l’appropriation des TIC en milieu urbain en Afrique de l’Ouest by Annie Cheneau-Loquay

“…Those related with the insertion of the ICTs in territories are demonstrations of a “paradoxical invention of the modernity” [JF Bayart 1994] with regard to the universalist classic model of the modernization spread by the West. …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Based on original archival documents, the essay interrogates these resistances to universalist ideas of technology and ontological assumptions embedded and perpetuated through the architecture of post-colonial “development” projects. …”
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La defensa de la especificidad española frente al advenimiento de la cultura liberal (1833-1839) by Laetitia Blanchard Rubio

“…The Carlists condemn the devastating effects of a new universalist culture and present Spain as a country protected from this new « illness » affecting other European countries. …”
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The Discourse of Post-capitalism as a Reflection of the Crisis of Globalization by D. G. Evstafiev

“…This crisis impacts both its economic underpinnings, rooted in the dominance of financial capitalism, and its societal foundations, which revolve around a universal model of social development built upon a universalist model of consumption.Discourses surrounding post-capitalism within Russian and Western academic and expert circles exhibit unique characteristics. …”
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Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision of Science, Religion and Planetary Humanity: A Challenge to the Contemporary World by Ursula King

“…Teilhard’s evolutionary, convergent and universalist thinking can be a guiding light for the contemporary world to move forward.At the present state of crisis, planetary humanity is faced, more than ever before, with the responsibility for its further self-evolution. …”
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ON THE THIN PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND ITS THICKENINGS by Zenonas Norkus

“…As a matter of fact such theory is as yet nonexistent, the theorists of the thick rationality beeing divided into the consequentialists relying on the Humean instrumentalist concept of rationality explicated in the decision theory and the deontologists exploiting the Kantian universalist intuitions on rationality. The article discusses the idea of the "broad" concept of rationality which is intermediate between the minimalist (thin) or formal one and the maximalist (thick) or substantive ethical one, exposed in the work of Jon Elster, Amartya Sen, Albert O. …”
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Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In their diagnosis of the present, De Martino and Appadurai, though sharing the idea that reference to universalistic values inherited by European modernity does not provide more an adequate frame for interpretation, express divergent views about modernity, its European matrix and the ethical dispositions which grow with it. …”
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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AS A SOLUTION TO RATIONALITY IN POSTNONCLASSICAL EPISTEMOLOGY by O. V. Molokova

“…The occurrence and popularity of a socially-constructivist paradigm was preceded by polemic between defenders of orientation of a science on the objectivity, positions adhering positivistically- universalistic and their opponents defending positions relativism. …”
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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: Shaping Identity through Violence by Inmaculada Pineda

“…Deux approches sont considérées, d´un côté la mentalité féministe du peuple noir, et de l’autre, l’éloignement du multiculturalisme vers une perspective plus universaliste puisque la violence paraît constante dans le temps et l´espace. …”
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