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organicism
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organicism [ȯr′ganĀ·ə‚sizĀ·əm]
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202) Equally paradoxical, the faith in education rested on a belief in the organicist origins of mental disability, namely, that physical defects were hampering individual development.
Against the anti-urban stance of the organicists, fringe figures often inhabiting the political far right, Matless presents a cavalcade of progressive individuals and ventures -- before, during and after the last war -- ranging from the Cambridgeshire Village Colleges, the post-war New Towns and even the careful pilgrimage route of the CND marchers.
Milbank contends that much of modern Catholic social teaching is a "grotesque hybrid" of liberal market economics and organicist, patriarchal social ideals, underwritten by discredited notions of essentialism and natural law.
 
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