moral futurism

noun

The moral stance of accepting that moral system that is probably going to be dominant in the future.

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nounmoral futurism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountablehuman sciencesThe moral stance of accepting that moral system that is probably going to be dominant in the future.

    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.

    2001, Robert C. Tucker, Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marx
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    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.

    2009, Avishai Margalit, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises
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