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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates

Pinker, Steven
Ridley, Matt
De Botton, Alain

Paperback

Series: Munk Debates, Book 2015

PhilosophyGeneral World HistoryHistory & Philosophy of Science

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ISBN10: 1487001681
ISBN13: 9781487001681
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: Jun 7 2016
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality.

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