abderitism

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈæbdəˌɹɪtɪzm̩/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The theory that humanity's morality will never advance beyond its present state. uncountable
    — This one example of Abderitism will suffice for my present purpose, though innumerable instances might be produced in other departments.

词源

From German Abderitismus, from Abderit (“foolish person”) + -ismus (“-ism”), from Ancient Greek Ἀβδηρῑ́της (Abdērī́tēs, “Abderite”) because of the Abderites’ famed foolishness and stupidity in classical Greece. It is equivalent to Abderite + -ism. The German term was coined by the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) in Der Streit der Fakultäten (The Conflict of the Faculties, 1798).
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