Crossword-Solution: PERFECTIBILITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perfectibility | n. | The quality or state of being perfectible. |
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| the state of being perfectible | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PERFECTIBILITY (5)
Use palliatives, employ emollients; there is no remedy." Nor is this argument peculiar to the theologians; we find it expressed in equivalent language in the philosophical writings of the materialists, believers in infinite perfectibility.
Chapter VIII: The Principle Of Equality Suggests To The Americans The Idea Of The Indefinite Perfectibility Of Man Equality suggests to the human mind several ideas which would not have originated from any other source, and it modifies almost all those previously entertained.
The idea of perfectibility is therefore as old as the world; equality did not give birth to it, although it has imparted to it a novel character.
Aristocratic nations are naturally too apt to narrow the scope of human perfectibility; democratic nations to expand it beyond compass.
Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race.
Quotes with PERFECTIBILITY (3)
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.
I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.
While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this sense, the law-making project always presupposes the improvability, if not the perfectibility, of humankind. Whether our view of human nature tends toward Hobbesian grimness or Rousseauian equanimity, we tend to think of law as critical to reducing brutality and violence.