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meliorist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
| Type of | eristic, controversialist, disputant |
| Has types | birth-control reformer, chartist, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, conservationist, abolitionist, demonstrator, activist, birth-control campaigner, freedom fighter, hippie, hippy, hipster, insurgent, insurrectionist, libber, militant, non-resistant, passive resister, preservationist, prohibitionist, protester, rebel, utopian, women's liberationist, women's rightist, dry, emancipationist, environmentalist, feminist, flower child |
| Derivation | meliorism |
Examples of meliorist
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And its vision of success would be meliorist rather than counterrevolutionary.
From the douthat.blogs.nytimes.com
Another important understanding of the meliorist tradition comes from the American Pragmatic tradition.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He is a self-acknowledged meliorist, one who believes that change is for the better and people can accelerate the beneficial process.
From the time.com
Political philosopher John Gray identified the common strands in liberal thought as being individualist, egalitarian, meliorist, and universalist.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Reformer: a disputant who advocates reform
- (meliorism) the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
- Meliorism is an idea in metaphysical thinking holding that progress is a real concept leading to an improvement of the world. ...
- (Meliorism (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.
- A proponent of meliorism; Of or relating to meliorism; Supporting the principles of meliorism
- (meliorism) The view or doctrine that the world is neither entirely bad nor entirely good, and can be improved through human effort. Understood as an intermediate outlook, between optimism and pessimism
- (MELIORISM) Whatever the state of the world, it may be improved. Associated with Pragmatism.
- (Meliorism) The belief that both the morals and the reasoning powers of the masses are essentially sound so that with the innovation of democratic government their good judgment will inevitably make the world an ever better place for mankind in that all future changes will be progressive steps ...
