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| Progress: Progress is the forward movement towards a desired goal. It can be measured through technological advancement, social change, or personal development. See also Process, Change, Measurements, Learning, Stages of development._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Nicolas de Condorcet on Progress - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 211 Progress/Condorcet/Habermas: the concept of progress is linked to the idea of learning. The human mind does not owe its progress to the approach to a telos, but to the unhindered confirmation of its intelligence, i.e. a learning mechanism. Learning means the intelligent overcoming of obstacles; Condorcet characterizes the "constitution of our intelligence" by the "relationship between our means of discovering the truth and the resistance with which nature opposes our efforts".(1) >Intelligence/Condorcet, >Learning. Habermas III 214 Like Kant, Condorcet sees the progress of civilisation along the lines of a republic that guarantees civil liberties, an international order that brings about lasting peace, a society that accelerates economic growth and technological progress and abolishes or nevertheless compensates social inequalities.(2) >Civilization, >Technology, >Perfection, >Inequalities. 1. Condorcet, Entwurf einer historischen Darstellung der Fortschritte des menschlichen Geistes, hrsg. von W. Alff, Frankfurt, 1963, p. 253. 2. Ibid. p. 383._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Condo I N. de Condorcet Tableau historique des progrès de l’ esprit humain Paris 2004 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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