Sentence examples for concept of progress from inspiring English sources

United Nations Headquarters "The concept of progress must be rooted in the idea of catastrophe," observed Walter Benjamin, the author of "The Arcades Project" (Harvard University Press, 2000).

In two selections from his "Billboard" series, shots from inside a moving car frame double-edged messages, apparently added digitally, that question the concept of progress.

The Romans, he writes, had no concept of progress: "The implication is that the order of the universe is static, that social perspectives do not change; they must be the way they are.

Advances in engineering and sciences rested on the same assumption as the concept of progress in the arts, namely, that in some fields modern men could emulate and even surpass the ancients.

Thanks to the philosophers of the Enlightenment and the 1789 revolution, the concept of progress towards an ideal society has, despite periodic turmoil and bloodshed, been a powerful narrative in the French mind.

But then Karren Brady has hurdled so many obstacles, treated them as if they simply didn't exist, and is such a true believer in the concept of progress that maybe if we were all a little bit more like her, it actually would.

Some philosophers use the concepts of progress and rationality as synonyms: progressive steps in science are precisely those that are based upon the scientists' rational choices.

The theme of the ages of the world has had a long and fruitful life in Christian thought and undergirds many Western concepts of progress toward a better state of existence or of decline toward extinction.

Equally contentious, he seems to suggest that the decline of violence is evidence for a concept of human progress – although Pinker concedes that progress could be fragile and reversible.

There was no concept of social progress, let alone of gender revolution.

Our tolerance – in contrast to the intolerance of many of our ancestors – is evidence of the concept of historical progress.