Here again it is Plato who is the first to take up a clearly and consistently spiritual and universalistic position.
But the attitude of the Didache is rather the ordinary one of universalistic early Christianity on the soil of the Græco-Roman world.
To this Jewish Christianity is opposed, not Gentile Christianity, but the Christian religion, in so far as it is conceived as universalistic and anti-national in the strict sense of the term (Presupp.
His preaching was universalistic inasmuch as it attributed no value to ceremonialism as such, and placed the fulfilment of the Mosaic law in the exhibition of its moral contents, partly against or beyond the letter.
At the very beginning of the Apostolic Age the universalistic spirit of Christianity had already broken through the particularistic limitations of Judaism.
Apocalypse, to the idealuniversalistic standpoint assumed in the Gospel and the Epistles, and is inclined to identify the Presbyter of Papias with the Apostle.
Has not its eschatology, as shaped by the deutero-prophetic literature, a universalistic outlook?
Jesus, but also because it is universalistic in outlook, and because it implies the doctrine of the Trinity and, consequently, the metaphysical Divine Sonship of Jesus.
This spirit probably made it necessary for the writer of "Jonah" to embody his universalistic doctrines in the form of an obscure parable about a Prophet and a whale.
Yet in spite of these passages, the outlook as a whole is centred on Israel, and works of a definitely universalistic nature could hardly have found a place in the canon.
It is much easier for a man to move in a sort of diagonal between Egoistic and Universalistic Hedonism, than to be practically a consistent adherent of either.
Paley connects the Universalistic Hedonism that he adopts as a method for determining duties, with the Egoism which seems to him self-evident as a fundamental principle of rational conduct.
It is, in fact, rather the end of Egoistic than of Universalistic Hedonism, to which Common Sense feels an aversion.
It is not difficult to combine the Intuitional and Utilitarian methods into one; but can we reconcile Egoistic and Universalistic Hedonism?
In this case all that the Utilitarian can do is to effect as far as possible a reconciliation between the two principles, by expounding to the Egoist the sanctions of rules deduced from the Universalistic principle,--i.
It remains for us to consider the relation of the two species of Hedonism which we have distinguished as Universalistic and Egoistic.
Refined supernaturalism is universalistic supernaturalism; for the "crasser" variety "piecemeal" supernaturalism would perhaps be the better name.
Universalistic supernaturalism surrenders, it seems to me, too easily to naturalism.
In this universalistic way of taking the ideal world, the essence of practical religion seems to me to evaporate.
Hence, if the method of egoistic hedonism is unsatisfactory, far more unsatisfactory for the same and kindred reasons, is the method of universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism.
For if the dictates of universalistic hedonism are to be fulfilled, it must be under the guidance of individual judgments, or of corporate judgments, or of both.
Nay more--there is a triple set of difficulties in the way of universalistic hedonism.
On examination, we do not find that there is any ground for the assertion that the seventy disciples were sent to the Samaritans or Gentiles, or were in any way connected with universalistic ideas.
Those who assert the universalistic character of the episode generally deny its authenticity; most of those who accept it as historical deny its universalism.
In the book of Tobit and the Sibylline Oracles also we find thisuniversalistic conception of the Messianic age expressed.
In morals Mill may be considered the creator of what Henry Sidgwick, in his Methods of Ethics (1874), called Universalistic Hedonism.
Relative good agrees with the standard of what in England is known as Universalistic Hedonism--the greatest pleasure combined with the least pain for all sensitive beings, each agent counting for no more than one.
The universalistic standard settles the question summarily by estimating pleasures according to their social utility.
A simple explanation of the changes made by both Matthew and Luke may perhaps be seen in Matthew's Judaistic tendency, which led him to omit Tyre and Sidon, and in Luke's universalistic tendency which made him include them.
These latter regions would interest him especially, with his universalistic tendency; we should hardly have been surprised to find him adding them if he had not found them in Mark.
Sidenote: Theory of obligation simplified, ifuniversalistic end arrived at.
Thus, if we can hypostatise the community, and treat it as an individual with magnified but human wants and satisfactions, then, for this leviathan, the ethical end will correspond to what is called Utilitarianism or Universalistic Hedonism.
So far from these two positions being inconsistent, it is only through the second that the first can be held in its universalistic form.
But if religion is the product of social causes, how can we explain the individual cult and the universalistic character of certain religions?
Thus we see how, in certain cases, thisuniversalistic tendency has been able to develop itself to the point of affecting not only the higher ideas of the religious system, but even the principles upon which it rests.
It would tend to clearness if we might call this principle, and the method based upon it, by some such name as Universalistic hedonism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "universalistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
