Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality of being characterized by purely personal modes of expression or behavior; idiosyncrasy.
- noun Philosophy Any of various theories of subjective idealism regarding personality as the key to the interpretation of reality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being personal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being personal; personality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun philosophy A doctrine of
subjective idealism that regardspersonality as the means of interpretingreality .
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Examples
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Mounier propounded what became known as personalism, which advocated solidarity, community, and an internal spiritual
The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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Mounier propounded what became known as personalism, which advocated solidarity, community, and an internal spiritual renewal as well as a political renewal.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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Seems to me that there is still, under the surface, a kind of personalism as opposed to professionalism at work in the assessment process.
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My own estimation of the tone and substance of his scholarship is that a considerable amount of it is inconsistent with DePaul's Vincentian values, most particularly our institutional commitment to respect the dignity of the individual and to respect the rights of others to hold and express different intellectual positions-what I take to be one significant meaning of what we term Vincentian "personalism" as well as our commitment to diversity.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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My own estimation of the tone and substance of his scholarship is that a considerable amount of it is inconsistent with DePaul's Vincentian values, most particularly our institutional commitment to respect the dignity of the individual and to respect the rights of others to hold and express different intellectual positions-what I take to be one significant meaning of what we term Vincentian "personalism" as well as our commitment to diversity.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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My own estimation of the tone and substance of his scholarship is that a considerable amount of it is inconsistent with DePaul's Vincentian values, most particularly our institutional commitment to respect the dignity of the individual and to respect the rights of others to hold and express different intellectual positions-what I take to be one significant meaning of what we term Vincentian "personalism" as well as our commitment to diversity.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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Such inflammatory polemics in no way further the civil discourse and serious intellectual inquiry that the Academy stands for to say nothing for the deeply shared DePaul University and Vincentian value of "personalism" … respect for the dignity of the individual.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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Such inflammatory polemics in no way further the civil discourse and serious intellectual inquiry that the Academy stands for to say nothing for the deeply shared DePaul University and Vincentian value of "personalism" … respect for the dignity of the individual.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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Although Wilpert notes that the government has taken some measures to minimize the cult of personality around Chavez, the problems of "personalism" are substantial.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
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Such inflammatory polemics in no way further the civil discourse and serious intellectual inquiry that the Academy stands for to say nothing for the deeply shared DePaul University and Vincentian value of "personalism" … respect for the dignity of the individual.
CAMERA Snapshots 2009
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