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MELIORISM (Lat. melior, better)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 95 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MELIORISM (Lat. melior, better) , in
philosophy
 , a
term
  given to that view of the world which believes that at present the sum of good exceeds the sum of evil and that, in the future, good will continually gain upon evil. The
term
  is said to , have been invented by George Eliot to
express
  a theory mediating between optimism and
pessimism
 . The pragmatic
movement
  in
philosophy
  which puts stress upon the duty and value of effort is naturally favourable to the melioristic view: the best things that have been said recently in favour of it are found in books such as
William
 
James
 's Pragmatism.


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