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do-goodism

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do-good (dgd)
adj.
Naively idealistic in the support of philanthropic or humanitarian causes.

do-goodism n.

do-goodism
attitudes or actions of well-intentioned but sometimes ineffectual people, especially in the area of social reform.
See also: Goodness, Society


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The ideals of responsible citizenship, altruism, and do-goodism are not immediately apparent to students, particularly when the service-learning component is integrated within the classroom setting as yet another course requirement that has to be met.
we can rest assured that the artist will not pander to the kind of ambassadorial, multilingual do-goodism that has crippled Pavilion installatio ns of the past.
On both sides of the Atlantic, this obligation has become a canonic element in the Western civil religion - both in its diluted Christian form, and in the do-goodism into which the once proud tradition of classical liberalism has now degenerated.
 
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