perfectibility

The idea of human perfectibility had, however, become more comprehensive.

For many of the suddenly wealthy, life's perfectibility becomes the mission.

He seems to have put a fine edge on the doctrine of perfectibility in fashion.

Nor were these all the steps towards theoretical perfectibility which this community had made.

His belief in the perfectibility of the world remains unshaken.

I don't believe in the infinite perfectibility of man, Caroline.

The radical has a passionate faith in the infinite perfectibility of human nature.

Its belief in perfectibility and harmony is a form of absolutism.

The theme of the work is the perfectibility of man by moral means.

According to Hegel, human history strives toward perfectibility, but nature does not.

It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all.

Is all this striving for physical perfectibility necessarily wrong?

This, he had said, was his "perfectibility of man."

The number "seven" has a special meaning in Biblical sense: it symbolizes human perfectibility.

That is, justice and good faith should not be drawn from Wilsonian dreams of perfectibility.

Nao was sometimes needed by scientists due to her perfectibility.

They differed from animals, however, in their capacity for free will and their potential perfectibility.

Why else work for the perfectibility of humankind?

"We preached the perfectibility of Man, and we have found it here.

They respond to a deep human yearning for certitude, affirmation of perfectibility.

Unlike John and Helen she had no faith in human perfectibility, either female or male.

In China, glass served the same function as jade, which was associated with perfectibility and immortality.

We had been brought up to believe in human innocence and even in human perfectibility.

The belief in human perfectibility had not prepared us for Hitler and Stalin.

They share a wishful vision of human perfectibility dressed up as an idea of justice.