单词 | totalist |
释义 | totalistn.adj. One who inclines to treat or regard things as a whole; one concerned with the whole social environment, esp. as a means of thought-control; one concerned with the whole person. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > social ethics > [noun] > other theories and their adherents atomism1836 Wellsian1905 personalism1908 totalist1956 1956 J. S. Bruner et al. Study of Thinking v. 128 The totalists have wanted to stay as close as possible to the whole cortex as an explanation, and it is only with the greatest reluctance that they will subtract any of its attributes as irrelevant. 1961 R. J. Lifton Thought Reform xxii. 420 Through this milieu control the totalist environment seeks to establish domain over not only the individual's communication with the outside.., but also..over what we may speak of as his communication with himself. 1961 R. J. Lifton Thought Reform xxii. 422 Ideological totalists do not pursue this approach solely for maintaining a sense of power over others. 1964 R. Wilkinson Gentlemanly Power xiii. 184 A ‘totalist ideology’..refers to any doctrine which attempts a complete, unified explanation of world and society. 1969 Polit. Q. XL. 472 Only that which is known by the ‘whole being’ is sound and healthy... The origins of this totalist view of knowledge..are no doubt various. Derivatives totaˈlistic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > social ethics > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their adherents anthropocentric1855 Wellsian1905 totalistic1932 neo-Marxist1933 1932 H. H. Price Perception vi. 151 The perceptual act still has this totalistic character. 1942 Mind 51 316 Some writers are frightened by the word intuition, and admittedly it has bad associations... Again, under, I believe, Croce's influence, it has come to mean the apprehension of a whole as a whole, a ‘totalistic’ apprehension. 1976 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 88 A totalistic rejection of the contemporary order is not encountered. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 772/1 The idea of collage city was dualism itself, an incorporation of opposite qualities which Modern city planning in its utopian, or totalistic phase, had denied. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.adj.1932 |
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