moral futurism

English

Noun

moral futurism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy, rare) The moral stance of accepting that moral system that is probably going to be dominant in the future.
   • 2001, Robert C. Tucker, Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marx‎^[1]:

     Hegelian moral positivism, according to Popper, holds that whatever historically is is right, whereas Marxist moral futurism holds that whatever inevitably will be in history is, for that very reason, right.

   • 2009, Avishai Margalit, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises‎^[2]:

     Any revolutionary moral futurism that advocates sacrificing the revolutionary generation so as to enable future generations to enter a Promised Land should be discarded on the basis of my desert-generation test.

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