The Idea of Progress

The Idea of Progress

Title: The Idea of Progress
Author: John Bagnell Bury
Release: 1927-01-01
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Books
Size: 258408
In historiography, the Idea of Progress is the theory that advances in technology, science, and social organization can produce an improvement in the human condition. That is, people can become happier in terms of quality of life (social progress) through economic development (modernization), and the application of science and technology (scientific progress). The assumption is that the process will happen once people apply their reason and skills, for it is not divinely foreordained. The role of the expert is to identify hindrances that slow or neutralize progress.

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