historicism

• He criticized what he called historicism, the perspective that all standards are relative to or imposed by particular historical situations. —  University of Chicago Chronicle
• Yet their historicism gives us nothing concrete at all. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
• Audit interview with him last month (a must-read for biz journos and their readers, in our view). latest column, "First, Fire the Regulators," not just because we agree that the regulatory system needs major overhaul, but for his historicism, which we always like. —  CJR
• Nor is there a way to reconcile Gottfried's German historicism with the American republic — try as he might to read the Declaration's "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" out of America's founding — or with the principles and way of life any genuine American conservatism must be charged with conserving. —  Claremont.org
• What sense does it make to prescribe German historicism and then, as proof of our need of it, point to the morass into which it has led Germany? —  Claremont.org

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