Meliorism
Meliorism
(Latin: melior, better)
A philosophic theory which holds that though things in the world are bad they can be improved, and that man can find some satisfiaction in laboring to increase the happiness of his fellow men. This theory occupies an intermediate position between the extreme Optimism of Leibnitz and the extreme Pessimism of Schopenhauer. It was first propounded by Sully and George Eliot and naturally finds support among the adherents of the pragmatic movement in philosophy.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Meliorism
(Lat. melior, better) View that the world is neither completely evil nor completely good, but that the relative amounts of good and evil are changeable, that good is capable of increase. Human effort to improve the world can be effective in making the world better and probably the trend of biological and social evolution tends in that direction. Opposed to Optimism and Pessimism. The term was coined by George Eliot. — A.J.B.