Progress and the Quest for Meaning: A Philosophical and Historical InquiryThere has been a surprising absence of a general philosophical overview of progress as a method of articulating human meaning. This book attempts to fill this gap. |
Contents
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The Historical Background of Modern Progressivism | 23 |
The Religious Background of Modern Progressivism | 25 |
Early Modern Elements of Progressivism | 47 |
Progress and Equality Some NineteenthCentury Doubts | 61 |
The Idea of Progress and the Problem of Meaning in Modernity | 85 |
Introduction | 87 |
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abstract action activity advance ambition Andrew Bernstein attain attempt Augustine become believe century certainly Christian competitive conception concern concrete condition consciousness consumerism continuously contrast conviction course creative culture death degree desire economic economic progressivism emphasized entirely equally Eric Voegelin essence Eternal Return evil existence external fact faith fear freedom Friedrich Nietzsche genuine happiness Hegel hope human ideal important individual involved issue James Spedding kind laissez-faire least less lives Marxism Max Harold Fisch Max Weber meaningful means merely modern progressivism moral nature Nietzsche object one's oneself philosophy Plato pleonexia political position possible praise presupposes principle problem progress purely quest R. H. Tawney radical reality reason regarded result satisfaction scarcely sense serious simply social Social Darwinism society sphere spirit sublimation sure technological tension things thinkers threatened tion Tocqueville tradition truly truth universal Walter Kaufmann