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The Idea of Progress
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In historiography, the Idea of Progress is the theory that advances in technology, science, and social organization inevitably produce an improvement in the general human condition. Meaning, people can be happier in terms of quality of life through economic development and the application of scientific progress.
"To the minds of most people the desirable outcome of human development would be a condition of society in which all the inhabitants of the planet would enjoy a perfectly happy existence."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Half title
- Introduction
- Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Leroy
- Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon
- Cartesianism
- The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns
- Fontenelle
- The General Progress of Man: Abbe De Saint-Pierre
- Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot
- The Encyclopaedists and Economists
- Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux
- The Year 2440
- The French Revolution: Condorcet
- The Theory of Progress in England
- German Speculations of Progress
- Currents of Thought in France after the Revolution
- The Search for a Law of Progress: I. Saint-Simon
- The Search for a Law of Progress: Il. Comte
- “Progress” in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830–1851)
- Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851
- Progress in the Light of Evolution
- Epilogue
- Index