Wednesday, February 27, 2008

New Word Learned: Meliorism

Via the articulate Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

"...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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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