10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELIORISTIC»
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melioristic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Bioethics Beyond the Headlines: Who Lives? who Dies? who ...
These goals are melioristic (melior is Latin for "better," thus, making better) and
are not obligatory: "our descendants have a right to be left an unplundered planet
; they do not have a right to new miracle cures." The pursuit of melioristic goals ...
The destination of research is essentially melioristic. It does not serve the
preservation of the existing good from which I profit myself and to which I am
obligated. Unless the present state is intolerable, the melioristic goal is in a sense
gratuitous ...
Clergy have sometimes been criticized for the vagueness of the melioristic
approach. Nevertheless, this ... Several melioristic ministries have the
characteristic of providing the elderly with a surrogate family. In our day the
elderly often live at a ...
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Environmental Philosophy: A Revaluation of Cosmopolitan ...
A melioristic actualization must be either novel and worthwhile or an
improvement on previously actualized alternatives. Adding to the good in the
world through creative actualization is a melioristic process—the world is even
better after ...
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Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, ...
We ought to pay more attention to Honneth 's unfortunately neglected
contribution to pragmatist democratic theory. This is so even if, as I am arguing
we should, we locate the core of a pluralistic democracy in a conception of
melioristic growth ...
These goals are "melioristic," and are, as such, gratuitous, not obligatory: "Our
descendants have a right to be left an unplundered planet; they do not have a
right to new miracle cures." The pursuit of melioristic goals cannot generate any
right ...
Department of Medical History and Ethics University of Washington School of Medicine Albert R. Jonsen Professor and Chair, 1998
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William James's Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of ...
The attentiveness is a function of the melioristic belief, not just conjecture, that
there are enormous consequences for this world, and the human beings in it, of
the decisions made by free human agents in collaboration with the divine. The
last ...
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The Ethical Challenges of Human Research: Selected Essays
Accordingly, “the destination of research is essentially melioristic” (p. 14). It aims
to improve medical care and enhance public health. Yet lonas quickly invokes a
non sequitur: “The melioristic goal is in a sense gratuitous” (p. 14). We can ...
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William James on Ethics and Faith
Within the span of a mere three pages towards the end ofPragmatism, for
example, James declares that when he makes pluralistic and melioristic
criticisms of religious monism he is not speaking “officially” as a pragmatist (P,
141—42), yet he ...
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On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics
Therefore, human experimentation has come to be a societal interest. The
destination of research is essentially melioristic. It does not serve the
preservation ofthe existing good from which I profit myself and to which I am
obligated. Unless the ...
M. Therese Lysaught, Joseph J. Kotva, Jr., 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELIORISTIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
melioristic is used in the context of the following news items.
Our mob mentality is like a bad orchestra: we saw away at the same …
The melioristic view about global warming, advanced in the Stern report and now given a new lease of life by Naomi Klein (World's Most ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
Spotlight: Kirby | Absurdity in Dream Land
... to cry for a protracted period of time over even an ocean of spilt milk, and for its net melioristic outlook, its mastery of the 'cosy catastrophe'. «Dual Pixels, Mar 15»
John Gray and the evil at the core of human nature
Western leaders as believers in “melioristic liberalism” is quite a stretch. In fact, it is their vocal opponents on the liberal left who believe that ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
The truth about evil
Whatever their position on the political spectrum, almost all of those who govern us hold to some version of the melioristic liberalism that is the ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
Give and take in Hollywood's version of Lois Lowry's The Giver
Insolent teens on melioristic missions in post-apocalyptic societies are having a bit of a moment. However, The Giver was published in 1993, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 14»
The Three Curses Faced By Democrats -- And How to Lift Them
Politics yes, but culture and education, without suggesting the melioristic and failed formula of communitarianism. We need to rethink the Left to ... «The American Prospect, Jun 14»
The novel-is-dead article is dead. (This time for real.)
He describes the whole discussion as “at once Panglossian and melioristic,” which may leave the average newspaper reader wondering if she ... «The Globe and Mail, May 14»
Are critics too nice? The hatchet job's last gasp
... Job — prompted the Guardian to airily dismiss it as “a sustained cry from the heart that over some 300 pages oddly modulates into melioristic ... «Toronto Star, Dec 13»
Art and science: 'two cultures' with shared values
For Snow, scientists were optimists, acknowledging the tragedy of human existence but pitching against it a melioristic philosophy. Those in the ... «Times Higher Education, Dec 13»
What Jean Monnet Wrought
The view of politics taken in these memoirs is rational and melioristic. In the dependence which it suggests of the political on the economic factors in society ... «Foreign Affairs, Nov 12»
