[Revised entry by Agnes Tam and Margaret Meek Lange on February 28, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The philosophical discourse on progress, both moral and political, has a long history. It first rose to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment as a particular view of history as progressive (see entries on Enlightenment and philosophy of history). Contrary to the view that history is a sequence of random events with…
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