10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFECTIBILIST»
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perfectibilist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
Some conservatives found the perfectibilist position objectionable on theological
grounds, because it claimed too much re- sponsibility and power for human
beings at the expense of God. Other conservatives saw the perfectibilist
emphasis on ...
2
Radical Artisan, William James Linton, 1812-97
Linton was to rebuild and alter his fortress after crises and new discoveries, but
its private, perfectibilist wards remained essentially intact to shelter him through
his lifetime. The presiding genius of the magazine was Shelley in his offensive, ...
Francis Barrymore Smith, 1973
3
Constraint on Trial: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and ...
Coornhert translated Castellio's perfectibilist tract, An possit homo per Spiritum
Sanctum perfecte obedire legi Dei, into Dutch: Vande gehoorsaemheyt (1583),
not in Wercken. 94Guggisberg, “Ich hasse die Ketzer,” 261. 95Ozment, Mysticism
...
4
Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force
Here the authors substitute pejorative rhetoric for argument, falsely implying that
anyone who favors more cosmopolitan education is a (wide-eyed) perfectibilist. It
is crucial to understand where the burden of argument lies in this instance.
5
Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics ...
The perfectibilist drive of Wollstonecraft's texts, the promise of continuous
improvement, depends upon an act of faith that the individual will not simply be
martyred to the larger cause, but that the individual's moral improvement will itself
...
6
Anthropology As Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice
Both of these limit cases ensue from the perfectibilist principle, and both,
regardless of their express objective, insofar as they are humanly rendered,
come to the same effect: death as its own end. In the one case, there is no
economy of ...
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens, 2013
7
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Consider the following passage, in which Malthus pokes fun at perfectibilist
conjectures regarding future 'improvements' in the physical constitution of man: A
writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot ...
Thomas Malthus, Geoffrey Gilbert, 1993
Why is the scene "Grablegung" ignored? Why is Faust's ascension to heaven,
with its at least arguably perfectibilist "Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, / den
können wir erlösen" dismissed with little more than a long footnote? Why Goethe
...
9
Frankenstein: The Illuminatus Complex
My name is Max Sutor, and I am a Perfectibilist.” I remained puzzled. "
Perfectibilist? What sort of bizarre title is that?" "An ignorant fool like you would
not have heard of us, but we are also known as the Order of Illuminatus. We are
devoted to ...
10
Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics: A Philosophical ...
Turgot became a civil servant and statesman, and his intellectual interests turned
more and more in the direction of economics.2 Echoes of his early perfectibilist
views, and, more particularly, of the theory of history with which they were ...
