How To Use Perfectibility In A Sentence
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The word ideologue was often in Bonaparte's mouth; and in using it he endeavoured to throw ridicule on those men whom he fancied to have a tendency towards the doctrine of indefinite perfectibility.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Hogg laughed at him for his belief in the 'perfectibility' of the race, but Hogg knew the belief was vital to the poet.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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Too large a topic to explore in detail here, I want to conclude by suggesting how two ramifications of her parents 'promotion of reason as the path to perfectibility through their creative writings helps to concretize Shelley's origins and legacy as author of
Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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Faith in the perfectibility of man has caused more pratfalls than the banana peel.
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Does his benevolent intention, his belief in "the perfectibility of mankind," mitigate his culpability in any way?
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd: Questions
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But the complexity of his own world view he opposed British involvement in the war but was himself a power-worshiper with a totalitarian itch who believed passionately in human perfectibility charges what might have been a standard-issue Shavian sermon with the multilayered ambiguity of high art.
Smile as the Bomb Goes Off
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Utopianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu - ries was supported not only by a belief in the inevita - bility of progress, but also by the widely held doctrine of the malleability or perfectibility of human nature which implied that men's minds and characters could be quickly molded by education to be vastly, if not totally, different from what they were.
UTOPIA
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They have firmly accepted the Confucian belief in the perfectibility and educability of the common person.
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Sociologists have been seduced by Marxist ideas about the perfectibility of mankind.
ID/Evolution
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In this sense there may be such a thing as perfectibility in works of fiction, notwithstanding the concession often made by the advocates of human improvement, that perfectibility is a term applicable only to science.
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth
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And then the third one, the Christian myth about perfectibility not here and now in this world, but in some future time and place.
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a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man
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Returning to that "perfectibility" argument I was making a couple of weeks ago, Luthor believes he's earned the right to occupy Superman's cultural role--his idea of perfection is defined in terms of power and prestige, and you don't get much more of that than being the U.S.
Week 3: The Not-So-Amazing Story of Luthor-Green and Luthor-Blue!
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Last week I reread Gulliver's Travels, it's for the chapter I'm writing for the book on breeding the chapter's about the idea of perfectibility, Swift to Godwin, with digressions on horse-breeding and cultural versus genetic perfectibility; Swift really is the most amazing writer, there's no one else like him.
Derek Mahon on Swift's poetry
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It is one of the extraordinary anomalies of the system, that combined with these principles of self-reliance and perfectibility, Buddhism has incorporated to a certain extent the doctrine of fate or "necessity," under which it demonstrates that adverse events are the general results of _akusala_ or moral demerit in some previous stage of existence.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Where Christianity taught that humans are sinful because of the fall, modernity taught universal human goodness and even perfectibility and denied the doctrine of sin.
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Perhaps we can pass up the pat solution, the easy nostrum, and immerse ourselves, with gratitude, in the complexity, the unknowability, the sheer imperfectibility of our lives.
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Where then is the sense of calling the perfectibility of man as used by modern philosophers to be mere words without a meaning, that is mere nonsense.
The Thirsty Theologian
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perfectibility," which rests on much less impressive evidence.
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth
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Malthus argues that 'perfectibility' gives an impossible end because equality would lead to vice and misery.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
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It's something that utopians like to forget in their deathless faith in the perfectibility of man.
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In the context of this militant polygenism of 1854-57, the new anthropology professor Quatrefages accepted a version of black perfectibility.
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Yet the diffusive linked progress of Victorian perfectibility seems instinct there nonetheless, grammatically as well as rhythmically, overriding the caesura and all the other shocks and setbacks of progression, not only in the emphatic glottal ligature of "growing good" but in the double semantic bond of the words.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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But the complexity of his own world view he opposed British involvement in the war but was himself a power-worshiper with a totalitarian itch who believed passionately in human perfectibility charges what might have been a standard-issue Shavian sermon with the multilayered ambiguity of high art.
Smile as the Bomb Goes Off
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For instance, one difference lies in in Benjamin Franklin's approach to his errata - we are often told he believed in the Enlightenment tradition of the perfectibility of man.
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he believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man
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The Enlightenment proclaimed optimistic views of human reach and perfectibility that challenged formerly essential Christian views of human limits.