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From Perfectibility to Perversion:
Meliorism in ...
Examining key articulations of Enlightenment meliorism as it shifts between open-ended models of human perfectibility and « fixist conceptions of the human body, this book will appeal to a range of specialists because it draws on a variety ...
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Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, ...
Yet the motivations for, and philosophical significance of, these reconstructions
remain obscure so long as the meliorism at the heart of pragmatism goes
unexplained. One way of looking at hopefulness, which in its more
philosophically robust ...
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Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence
"Meliorism is the belief," Dewey writes, "that the specific conditions which exist at
one moment, be they comparatively bad or comparatively good, in any event may
be bettered" (MW 12: 181 -82). 87 Meliorism thus encourages intelligent action, ...
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Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy
true disbelievers who are sure that things cannot be more as they want, and so
see no need to try to make them so, the meliorism of pragmatism provides hope
and preaches hard work. Against the optimistic true believers who are sure that ...
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John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and ...
Much is packed into this description of meliorism, but we can extract three main
features: 1. Meliorism must include an analysis of some sort of end state or goal.
2. Meliorism must involve attention to the means needed to reach this end state. 3
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William James's Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of ...
The commitment to moral action and individual striving for improving the
worlddefine Middlemarch andnodoubt contributedtoEliot'slater use of theword “
meliorism”, which she is attributed by some to be the originator.Thenotion is
attributed to ...
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Ethical Idealism: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Function of ...
With any mode of meliorism, the question of the pace of improvement will always
arise. When things are held to be getting better and better, the issue of velocity
looms — a snail's pace vs. an avalanche-like rush. Moreover, any meliorism that
...
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Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois
Indeed, James himself proclaims that pragmatism is at heart melioristic: “It is clear
that pragmatism must incline toward meliorism.”94 However, it is crucial that we
understand what James meant by meliorism and distinguish it from the common ...
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Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist ...
opposed to pessimism and must ultimately triumph over it is not optimism, which
is the gospel of inaction, but meliorism, which is scientific utilitarianism, inspired
by faith in the law of causation and the efficacy of well-directed action' (1893, p.
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The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce
closer look at what meliorism—and especially pragmatistic meliorism— entails.
Perhaps the best place to start is the Century Dictionary (1889—91), where we
find a definition that extant evidence strongly indicates to be partly authored by ...
Cornelis De Waal, Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, 2012
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Why The Left Hates Video Games
The perfectibility of man and the illimitable progress of society: meliorism. Radicals believe that education, positive legislation, and alteration of ... «The Federalist, 六月 15»
Mr. Huckabee's challenge - imposing his values, without imposing …
Against this backdrop, Huckabee is an anachronism -- again, not for his statist meliorism, but for his openly religious motivations. And while I ... «PennLive.com, 五月 15»
Holy warriors of the left and right
Against this backdrop, Huckabee is an anachronism, not for his statist meliorism, but for his openly religious motivations. And while I have as ... «Herald & Review, 五月 15»
How the Humanist Movement Fosters Economic Injustice
Although it was far from perfect, Humanism was an admirable type of radical meliorism. On our side of the divide, within mainstream Humanism ... «CounterPunch, 五月 15»
Rowan Williams: can we ever be in charge of our own lives?
Gray's comprehensive scepticism about social meliorism and Baggini's ever-so-slightly bland commitment to democratic capacity-building are ... «New Statesman, 五月 15»
Station Eleven: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction's Perseverance
It's Mandel's “meliorism”—the belief that the world gets better, that humans can improve it—that shapes Station Eleven, a rare optimistic ... «Den of Geek!, 四月 15»
The New Republic's Managerial Elitism
The first sin was original. The magazine's founders preferred Booker T. Washington's meliorism to W. E. B. Du Bois' demands for full civil rights. «First Things, 二月 15»
Saffron Terror: an audience with Burma's 'Buddhist Bin Laden' Ashin …
Barack Obama has held up Burma as an avatar of global democratic meliorism. He speaks of offering the "hand of friendship" to President ... «GQ.com, 二月 15»
Obama's Drones are far Deadlier than the Spanish Inquisition
Now I have to defend the Inquisition's truly Niebuhrian meliorism against Obama, a self-proclaimed Niebuhrian meliorist. (By the way, the ... «Patheos, 二月 15»
Spotlight: Kid Icarus – The Winged Comedy
Throughout much of mythology and great modes of totality, there is a countercurrent to this transcendental fear – meliorism. The belief that man ... «Dual Pixels, 一月 15»
