meliorism
noun
the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
Example Sentences
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The utopian has a better story to tell; the meliorist leaves us with a better world. ♦
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
But Coates and Alexander warn against this kind of meliorist thinking.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015
He is a self-acknowledged meliorist, one who believes that change is for the better and people can accelerate the beneficial process.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meliorist attitude, on the contrary, is rather to say, "Much is wrong; much painful; what can we do to improve it?"
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Grant Allen
She was, rather, a meliorist who hoped for better things, though tardy to come; who believed, in her own pungent phrase, "in the slow contagion of good."
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
