universalisticadj.

1689 W. Jameson Verus Patroclus 263 This Universalistick Doctrine makes the main and Chief difference, betwixt these that are actually saved, and not saved, to flow from the will of Man, which they say has a power to receive or reject Grace.

1847 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. vii. 389 A strong defence of the universalistic doctrine.

1887 E. Johnson Antiqua Mater 219 The Gnostics, sharing the universalistic aspirations of the time.

1962 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 30 243/2 He does not discuss the relation of this universalistic viewpoint in Genesis to the same outlook in Deutero-Isaiah.

1999 T. Talbott Inescapable Love of God ii. v. 62 A legitimate question concerning Pauline thought as a whole is whether we can find elsewhere in Paul's writings grounds for rejecting a universalistic interpretation on Romans 5:18.

1872 H. Sidgwick in Contemp. Rev. 19 664 A..syncretion of Egoistic and Universalistic Hedonism.

1882 Athenæum 11 Feb. 184/1 The universalistic tendencies of the great empires.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 370/1 Universalistic religious communities: Islâm, Buddhism, Christianity.

1964 T. Parsons Ess. Sociol. Theory (rev. ed.) 16 On the level of the research techniques he [sc. Weber] used, the broad contrasts, e.g. as between Chinese traditionalistic particularism and Western universalistic ‘rationalism’, were unmistakable.

1992 S. Rose Making of Memory 234 The time is ripe for the autonomous Soviet tradition in neurophysiology and psychology to be reassimilated into a more integrated and universalistic neuroscience.

1955 D. D. Raphael Moral Judgement i. iii. 27 Egoistic hedonism, the theory that a man's sole duty is to maximize his own happiness, was widened into universalistic hedonism (utilitarianism).

2005 J. A. Jacobs Ethics A–Z 136 Universalistic hedonism is the view that what one morally ought to do is to maximise happiness overall, without any special regard to one's own happiness.