particularism

There’s a funny, widespread phenomenon of people invoking cultural relativity and Christian particularism specifically on issues with the most cross-cultural consensus.

> Bayesianism, Intuitioinism, counter-factualism, methodism, particularism (obviously the list is incomlete) are just some of the tools in my toolbox.

It is apt that this essay against ChatGPT blurry language appears on The New Yorker, a publication so known for its literary particularism.

The answer may lie in the distinction between particularism and universalism.

I don't see univeralism as predominant as particularism in eastern fiction or even philosophy.

'divide et impera' The moment a universal idea is replaced by particularism, she is dead.

The complete rejection of an apparently good-faith effort towards peace and mutual assimilation is a fourth reason to be disturbed, but consistent with the particularism/separatism of the rest of the Old Testament.

> In the twenty-first century, examples of this modern particularism are rife.

Some of them are by definition not culturally biased, for example many forms of utilitarianism, whereas others are strongly emphasizing that ethics requires a great deal of contextual understanding, for example Dancy's particularism.

I have no idea how accurate or complete this answer is but I like it and the idea of a duty towards particularism acting as a protective layer against encroachment of authority, instead of fear tactics concerning universalism.

It is interesting you bring up that example, because it connects with the moral universalism vs moral particularism debate: moral universalists argue that an essential component of a valid ethical principle is it must be universal in scope (equally applicable to everyone at all times), even though it may still produce quite different outcomes when applied to differing situations.

--Walt Whitman Bayesianism, Intuitioinism, Structuralism, Counter-factualism, Reflection, Introspection, Self-reference, methodism, particularism (obviously the list is incomplete) are just some of the tools (formal languages/models - used for communicating with other humans, not to be mistaken for ontologies) in my toolbox.

It's also interesting that it came out a good decade after moral particularism came out, and it feels to me that his principle is "simply" methodological particularism.

The "eastern" particularism means that no idea is to be blindly applied to the end, no law is absolute, and no principle is sacred if it doesn't "work" in practice.

Today I live far away from this God-forsaken place called Israel with its ridiculous religious laws, its racism, its recursively fractured society (the more devout you are, the smaller your "community"), its cancerous infiltration of institutional religion into government, its sick obsession with death and martyrdom, its stupid veneration of men-with-yarmulkas, and its infantile particularism.

Particularism for distrust of a broader subjection, for example, is more of a regionalism.