History And Progress
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Author |
: Robert Nisbet |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 594 |
Release |
: 2017-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351515467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351515462 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of the Idea of Progress by : Robert Nisbet
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Author |
: Ronald Wright |
Publisher |
: House of Anansi |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780887847066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0887847064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Short History of Progress by : Ronald Wright
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Author |
: Christopher Dawson |
Publisher |
: CUA Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2012-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813218199 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813218195 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Progress and Religion by : Christopher Dawson
Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.
Author |
: Nichola Boughey |
Publisher |
: Heinemann Secondary |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2008-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0435318942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780435318949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis History in Progress 1603-1901 by : Nichola Boughey
History in Progress features clearly differentiated tasks that are designed to support and encourage the progression of pupils of all ability levels. A wealth of stimulating activities and accessible information will motivate your pupils and fill them with confidence, whilst building the key historical skills necessary for GCSE.
Author |
: Arthur M. Melzer |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2019-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501744679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501744674 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and the Idea of Progress by : Arthur M. Melzer
The publication of Francis Fukuyama's article, "The End of History?" prompted a wave of public debates about democracy, progress, and the idea of history. In this book, twelve distinguished cultural commentators offer a brilliant array of responses to those debates. Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters—none of which has appeared elsewhere—include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics.
Author |
: Sidney Pollard |
Publisher |
: Penguin Group |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015049831186 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of Progress by : Sidney Pollard
Author |
: David Spadafora |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 488 |
Release |
: 1990-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300046715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300046717 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain by : David Spadafora
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
Author |
: Martin Collier |
Publisher |
: Heinemann Secondary |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2009-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0435319019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780435319014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis 1901 to Present Day by : Martin Collier
History in Progress features clearly differentiated tasks that are designed to support and encourage the progression of pupils of all ability levels. A wealth of stimulating activities and accessible information will motivate your pupils and fill them with confidence, whilst building the key historical skills necessary for GCSE.
Author |
: Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2009-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780578016665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0578016664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind by : Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet
Perhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future emancipated from its chains and led by the progress of reason and the establishment of liberty. Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an elate and giddy optimist, Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print.
Author |
: Alexander Green |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2019-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438476049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438476043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Progress by : Alexander Green
The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress by Alexander Green is the first book in English to focus on a central aspect of his work: Ibn Kaspi's philosophy of history. Green argues that Ibn Kaspi understood history as guided by two distinct but interdependent forces: power and progress, both of which he saw manifest in the biblical narrative. Ibn Kaspi discerned that the use of power to shape history is predominantly seen in the political competition between kingdoms. Yet he also believed that there is historical progress in the continuous development and dissemination of knowledge over time. This he derived from the biblical vision of the divine chariot and its varied descriptions across different biblical texts, each revealing more details of a complex, multifaceted picture. Although these two concepts of what drives history are separate, they are also reliant upon one another. National survival is dependent on the progress of knowledge of the order of nature, and the progress of knowledge is reliant on national success. In this way, Green reveals Ibn Kaspi to be more than a mere commentator on texts, but a highly innovative thinker whose insights into the subtleties of the Bible produced a view of history that is both groundbreaking and original.