{"id":136,"date":"2016-04-26T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:58:11","slug":"development-of-perfectibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/research\/development-of-perfectibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of universal education plays into Cabet\u2019s obsession with the perfectibility of man. The idea that man can be made perfect is Cabet\u2019s obsession; he claims that perfectibility is necessary in creating a perfect world as perfection can only be achieved when man is able to recognize his own vices.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Cabet believed that \u201cthe human race\u2026has been generally\u2026perfecting itself\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> but achieving absolute perfection had been previously impossible because the vices of man, such as selfishness or greed, held society back.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> Cabet argues that potential exists because man is \u201cdistinguished from all other animate beings by his <em>reason.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\"><strong>[4]<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>In order to achieve equality, mankind must abandon these vices reasonably through equality and education. Cabet believed that education made societal vices apparent and that equality provided enough incentives to overcome any hesitations in abandoning societal norms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Cabet, \u201cCommunist Creed (1841),\u201d 147<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Cabet, \u201cCommunist Creed (1841),\u201d148<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Cabet, \u201cCommunist Creed (1841),\u201d 149<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Cabet, \u201cVoyage en Icarie,\u201d 146<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of universal education plays into Cabet\u2019s obsession with the perfectibility of man. The idea that man can be made perfect is Cabet\u2019s obsession; he claims that perfectibility is necessary in creating a perfect world as perfection can only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2823,"featured_media":0,"parent":128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}