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Concept Progress
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Leo Indman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-22 - Publisher: Leo Indman

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Concept Progress is a fusion of science fiction and philosophy. It is a metaphysics that centers on progress being a driving force in human evolution. This recu
History of the Idea of Progress
Language: en
Pages: 594
Authors: Robert Nisbet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and t
The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Ludwig Edelstein
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency in
The End of Progress
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Amy Allen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-12 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of
Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Alonzo L. Plough
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Cities and countries around the globe are starting to incorporate a well-being approach by reorienting policies and budgets to benefit people and long-term sust