Humans tend to suffer from a negativity bias – we notice and dwell more readily on negative experiences than positive ones.

One of my favorite philosophers is Charles Peirce. He was an American, but his philosophy of "meliorism," — essentially that ...

An expanding economy did not resist their participation. Whatever discriminations still existed they hoped, sharing the easy meliorism of the nineteenth century, to overcome. But, as that century ...

The brand name was inspired by “meliorism,” an idea that the world can be made a better place through human effort, he added. The products can be bought through the official website at (https ...

In the end, the eschatological fear confirmed the meliorism and universalism among Chinese religious groups. Finally, the swift transmission of the 1923 apocalyptic prophecy can be used to evaluate ...

Pragmatism's philosophy of social hope is often referred to as meliorism, the idea that the world can be made better with human effort. But in a democratic, open society, what makes the world “better” ...

Implementing these values has given rise to many different stands of leftist thought, leading to debates between radicals and proponents of meliorism. This module gives students the historical, ...