But given how messianic aspects of neoconservatism would subsequently become it's interesting to note that Kristol also (and in my view correctly) quipped that "meliorism" was all that could be hoped for even though. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Those opponents of Fabianism who desire something more revolutionary than its political 'meliorism' and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Fabian Society] Reference
And social scientists find that meliorism is an essential part of modern culture. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
The “worth” of the individual is not so much a fact as a goal; i.e., a product of meliorism. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
She has been hailed as a spiritual descendant of the noble meliorism of John Stuart Mill and George Eliot. From Wordnik.com. [Do-Gooder] Reference
This meliorism is causing an “aging population” (which, in turn, causes increased biomedical research). From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
The indecency and barbarism aimed at Dr. King and others of his era are being replaced with decency and meliorism. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Jesse Jackson: 40 Years of Progress and The Work That Remains] Reference
Prolongevity is a subsidiary variant of meliorism, the belief that human effort should be applied to improving the world. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
Although Descartes differs from Bacon on method - ology, he holds similar views in favor of meliorism, including prolongevity. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
Even reformist meliorism, frequently so despised, has developed a sociology or sociologies which have had important critical functions. From Wordnik.com. [Test Your Theory] Reference
What is not meaningful is incremental meliorism in the face of a coming catastrophe and against the opposition of a overwhelming oligarchic hegemony. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference
Wilsonianism, of course; containment after World War II; and then finally, rather more amorphous but really very powerful 20th century tradition which I call global meliorism. From Wordnik.com. [Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776] Reference
It is, however, fair to state that the term “meliorism,” coined by William James, de - scribes far more accurately than “optimism” the view of the process philosophers mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [TIME] Reference
Hook sought to counter the charge that the meliorism and optimism of pragmatism represented a failure to understand the tragic situation that is an inevitable part of the human condition. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
The antonym to meliorism is apologism, which condemns attempts to alter earthly conditions; in this essay apologism stands for the idea that pro - longevity is neither possible nor desirable. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
It is true, as Ruse points out, that two of the originators of the mathematical formulation of evolutionary dynamics were ideologically committed to some form of meliorism, if not perfection. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Over Evolution] Reference
"Indeed, despite Calvins Augustinian avoidance of historically oriented eschatology," writes Robin Bruce Barnes, "the hint of progressivism in his thought left the way open for the frank meliorism and chiliasm of many later Calvinist thinkers.". From Wordnik.com. [Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation] Reference
It is clear that pragmatism must incline towards meliorism. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
Be they false or be they true, the meaning of them is this meliorism. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
Socialism these days, for better or worse, seems mostly to have gone with meliorism rather than revolutionary fervor. From Wordnik.com. [Crooked Timber] Reference
The resistance to Enlightenment ideas that began three hundred years ago still shapes resistance to transhumanist meliorism today. From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
The ironical pessimism of Thomas Hardy is as false as the sentimental optimism of Walter Besant or the miso-androus meliorism of Sarah Grand. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
For, after all, we must never shut our eyes to the actual; and in the world as it is, meliorism, not optimism, is the true opposite of pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Prandial Philosophy] Reference
There were still strains of transhumanist meliorism, however, in ideas such as psychedelic liberation, alternative technology and post-scarcity anarchism. From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
Apologism stands solidly in opposition to the metaphysics of meliorism, which states that absolute "progress" is the desirable goal of all human endeavors. From Wordnik.com. [Althouse] Reference
But many of Zawahiri's cellmates rejected his call for violent resistance and embraced meliorism and a cautious, if often shadowy, distance from the state. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Midway between the two there stands what may be called the doctrine of meliorism, tho it has hitherto figured less as a doctrine than as an attitude in human affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
In the midst of a futile meliorism which deceives the more, the more it soothes, he stands out like some sinister skeleton at the feast, regarding the festivities with a flickering and impenetrable grin. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
The idea of a universal evolution lends itself to a doctrine of general meliorism and progress which fits the religious needs of the healthy-minded so well that it seems almost as if it might have been created for their use. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
I make my damned living from meliorism. From Wordnik.com. ["Although I thought Ann's Rush apologism was unseemly and unfounded, I have to say I basically agree with Jon Chait..."] Reference
(1) The perfectibility of man and the illimitable progress of society: meliorism. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Saudi Prince Calls Murdoch And Changes Fox News] Reference
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