(in idealist philosophy) an abstraction which is manifest in a developing or organized set of instances, so having the qualities of both the universal and the particular.
（唯心主义哲学） 具体的普遍
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An example is his claim that the self is a concrete universal and that the ethical doctrines he criticizes are damaged by their reliance upon abstract notions of the self.
Kiarostami has a gift for embodying thought, grounding the conceptual in the material and investing the material with the conceptual, a film-maker's gift for what Hegel termed the concrete universal.
This middle term would be the idea of humanity as the concrete universal in which feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic and socialist struggles would recognize their common foundation.
In short, it may seem that the distinction that the advocate of ‘concrete universals’ wants to make between his own position and that of the pure trope theorist is really a distinction without a difference.
Dupuis upholds Chalcedon's doctrine about Jesus Christ as truly God and truly a human being by presenting him as the ‘concrete universal.’
Definition of concrete universal in US English:
concrete universal
noun
(in idealist philosophy) an abstraction which is manifest in a developing or organized set of instances, so having the qualities of both the universal and the particular.
（唯心主义哲学） 具体的普遍
Example sentencesExamples
Dupuis upholds Chalcedon's doctrine about Jesus Christ as truly God and truly a human being by presenting him as the ‘concrete universal.’
In short, it may seem that the distinction that the advocate of ‘concrete universals’ wants to make between his own position and that of the pure trope theorist is really a distinction without a difference.
This middle term would be the idea of humanity as the concrete universal in which feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic and socialist struggles would recognize their common foundation.
An example is his claim that the self is a concrete universal and that the ethical doctrines he criticizes are damaged by their reliance upon abstract notions of the self.
Kiarostami has a gift for embodying thought, grounding the conceptual in the material and investing the material with the conceptual, a film-maker's gift for what Hegel termed the concrete universal.