Meliorism

'Meliorism' has been casually conceived as the view that humans can, via their own efforts, improve their living conditions.  However, a stronger 'Psychological Meliorism' is entailed in the Aristotelian thesis that every action aims at some good--that every action aims at bettering some given condition.  Furthermore, via an application of that conatus to itself, 'Ethical Meliorism' can be articulated as the Principle 'Try to better given conditions as much as possible', i. e. 'as much as possible' ameliorates 'better'.  As such, Meliorism proposes not only the improvement of given conditions, but self-cultivation, as well. i. e. what one has hitherto been is part of those given conditions.  As the product of an application of the conatus to itself, that proposal is, thus, self-exemplifying.