1) Belief
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Meliorism is an idea in metaphysical thinking holding that progress is a real concept leading to an improvement of the world. It holds that humans can, through their interference with processes that would otherwise be natural, produce an outcome which is an improvement over the aforementioned natural one. Meliorism, as a conception of the person a...
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[politics] Meliorism was a wing of the Italian Communist Party. Its leader was Giorgio Napolitano, and counted among its number Gerardo Chiaromonte and Emanuele Macaluso. It was also referred to as the `right wing` of the Italian Communist Party, due to its more moderate views. ==Origins== The name derives from the Italian verb migliorare (...
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the belief the world tends to become better
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• (n.) The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.
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Mel'io·rism noun [ From Latin
melior better.] The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.
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Meliorism is the doctrine that the world may be made better by human effort.
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the idea in metaphysics that humans can, through their interference with natural processes, produce an improvement over the natural outcome. It is at the foundation of contemporary liberal democracy and human rights, and is contrasted by the concept apologism.
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n] - the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
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meliorism, meliorisms 1. A belief in progress and improvement. 2. The belief that human society has a natural tendency to improve and that people can consciously assist this process. 3. The belief that improvement of society depends on human effort.
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noun the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
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(Lat. melior, better) View that the world is neither completely evil nor completely good, but that the relative amounts of good and evil are changeable, that good is capable of increase. Human effort to improve the world can be effective in making the world better and probably the trend of biological and social evolution tends in that direction. O....
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