The phrase "an idea of progress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or beliefs related to advancement or improvement in various contexts, such as social, technological, or personal development.
Example: "The conference focused on an idea of progress that emphasizes sustainability and innovation in urban development."
Alternatives: "a notion of advancement" or "a concept of improvement."
He developed an idea of progress that conceded the slow, tortured journey toward it.
We must start from scratch, embracing an idea of progress that is based on innovation, ambition and dynamism.
Her architecture embodied an idea of progress.
It has to develop and become a tree, and that development and growth may speak to an idea of progress that emphasizes responsibility and healing rather than social adjustments and technology.
His cosmic, overarching vision is remarkably anthropocentric — anchored in an idea of practical progress at a scale of human experience, with human history echoing the history of the universe.
The technology team, led by U.K.-based Tim Novis, is only 4 months into a 10-month build, to give you an idea of its progress.
We sure hope that Worldpay internally has an idea of their own progress.
In the 19th century, with the political emancipation of the Jews in western Europe and the development of an optimistic evolutionism, messianism was transformed by many liberal thinkers into a version of the idea of progress, a goal that was often thought of as immediately attainable through enlightened social and political action.
For an idea of how that could progress, he points to an unlikely inspiration: Magic Leap, the Google-backed augmented reality company that claims to have developed a world-changing new form of the technology.
According to Lukács, this empirical grounding enabled Hegel's dialectics to draw on an idea of objective, social-historical progress and understand modern society and economy as a processual totality that is structured by contradictions.
The Golden Dream, he says, is a film that pits the idea of progress, as symbolised by a train snaking its way towards the American border, against human needs and desires.
