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Creative Actualization: A
Meliorist Theory of Values
This book presents a major new value theory, value as creative actualization. The book takes a radically new approach to values.
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Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission
"Through rightly directed human effort" The meliorist as philanthropist believes in
action and seeks a constantly improving sense of direction and purpose. The
meliorist uses baselines and guidelines and projections that sketch out patterns ...
Robert L. Payton, Michael P. Moody,
2008
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Who Is Rational?: Studies of Individual Differences in Reasoning
1.1, the Meliorist position. The Meliorist begins with the assumption that the
prescriptive, if not identical to the normative, is at least quite close. However, the
descriptive model of human behavior, in the Meliorist view, can sometimes be
quite far ...
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International Handbook of Comparative Education
REFORMIST-MELIORIST. ADMINISTRATIVE. MOTIF. Pella Kaloyannaki and
Andreas M. Kazamias Introduction The modernist beginnings of comparative
education (CE) as a field of study are conventionally traced to the post-
Enlightenment ...
Robert Cowen, Andreas M. Kazamias, Elaine Unterhalter,
2009
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Polish Axiology: The 20th Century and Beyond
Persons realize themselves as a meliorist and as soteric. The meliorist's attitude
is characterized by the fact that working towards becoming better persons,
considering goodness as one's aim, they notice that certain things inherent in
them ...
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The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
To summarize the three positions: the Meliorist thinks that sometimes people are
not reasoning very well and that they could do much better. The Apologist thinks
that people are not reasoning properly, but that they are doing about as well as ...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
l am not, however, a pessimist — I am, I trust, a rational optimist, or at least a
meliorist Dr. J. Broicn, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 27. In her genera] attitude toward
life, George Eliot was neither optimist nor pessimist. She held to the middle term,
...
William Dwight Whitney,
1890
Whoever is doing anything, however humble, to promote this spirit in his
community is contributing to the solution of our industrial problem. THE Optimist,
the Cynic, and the Meliorist sat around the fire and discoursed on human nature,
woman, ...
Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy,
1912
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Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited
21. Pessimistic. Meliorist. R. of Wessex Poems, echoing the
reception of Hardy's later novels,repeatedly invoked the term 'pessimism', as if in
so doing they were simultaneously defining a distinctive philosophical position
and ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
I am not, however, a pessimist — I am, I trust, a rational optimist, or at least a
meliorist. Dr. J. Broicn, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 27. In her general attitude toward
life, George Eliot was neither optimist nor pessimist. She held to the middle term,
...
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The Streets Are Paved with Golden
Black-power radicals such as Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown had no use for Golden's meliorist nostrums (or, in Brown's case, the Jews). «Commentary Magazine, 七月 15»
Reasons to Live: Solstice, Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe …
... Jonestown Massacre mastermind Anton Newcombe definitely hit some ramblin'/janglin' notes on “Gone” and “Meliorist,” Parks's opiated rasp ... «Toronto Star, 六月 15»
Democracy's failure highlighted yet again
The present prevailing political scenario reminds me of an old Greek fable where a meliorist living in his ancestral house decides to part with it ... «Chitral News, 六月 15»
How the Humanist Movement Fosters Economic Injustice
Where the crisis of economic injustice is concerned, today's Humanism is neither radical nor meliorist. This devolution is about what we should ... «CounterPunch, 五月 15»
'The Road to Character,' by David Brooks
... champions Eliot as a “meliorist,” part of a grand tradition of “moral realism.” Brooks's all-American hopefulness is ever more shadowed by an ... «New York Times, 四月 15»
Restless Realism
... such a figure is the essential component of a modest, meliorist dream, one Vargas Llosa has sustained in times even darker than the present ... «The New Yorker, 三月 15»
“The notion that no current popular music is of quality is philistine …
She ended up marrying the man who ran for governor on the Green Party and that was kind of a meliorist move on his part. That was moving ... «Salon, 三月 15»
John Gray is like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi
Although sympathetic to many positions of the left, Gray is not a meliorist. His conclusion is that the only freedom you can hope for is an inner ... «Spectator.co.uk, 三月 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»
How Campbell Brown Became the Most Controversial Woman in …
... not going to give you the keys to the car,” she had said earlier, sounding less like a meliorist than someone plotting a velvety hostile takeover. «New York Magazine, 一月 15»