Sentence examples for totalistic from inspiring English sources

The totalistic principle of the Kegon school caught the attention of the reigning Japanese emperor, Shōmu, who considered it a possible approach to governing his people.

The clashes between the industry and the environmentalists are now becoming brutal and totalistic, dehumanizing each side.

Dreyfus and Kelly say that we should have the courage not to look for some unitary, totalistic explanation for the universe.

We can either rebel against this superficial drift, or like Dreyfus and Kelly, go with the flow, acknowledging that the autonomous life is impossible, not seeking totalistic theologies, but instead becoming sensitive participants in the collective whooshings that life offers.

In reality, it is often the unsatisfied, the depressed, the downtrodden and the lost who provide mortar for the edifices of violent, totalistic ideologies.

The synthetic dimension is inseparable from the empirical one: It is the formal, linguistic and conceptual, expression of the totalistic, holist approach required by the conception of empirical reality as a complex, including the phenomena of 'concrete ways of life'.

Despite their very different philosophical commitments and interests, ancient, modern, and contemporary Nativists are all drawn to this totalistic version of the doctrine.

We should doubt any transcendent or allegedly perfect, totalistic epistemic access to nature's inexpressible normative know-how.