Associations to the word «Particularism»

Wiktionary

PARTICULARISM, noun. (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
PARTICULARISM, noun. An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
PARTICULARISM, noun. (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.

Dictionary definition

PARTICULARISM, noun. A focus on something particular.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin