"I don't wear rose-colored glasses," he said, "but I think that it's important to take stock of the fact that we have made success in the direction of progress".
Just as the US supreme court did earlier this year when it ruled gay marriage to be constitutional, the European court of justice has not just walked but run in the direction of progress.
He believed in the duty of a benevolent upper class to lead the nation in the direction of progress, and it was only when his faith in that concept wavered, in the 1930s, that he threw his lot in with the Tory avatars.
Reactionary forces certainly push against these changes — the word "Armenian" remains a slur, apparently even for Turkey's President — but, in a way that feels new and genuine, one can now map the direction of progress: within a decade or two, denying the effort to exterminate Armenians may well become untenable in Turkey.
To the question "why must we choose to view human history as if it were moving in the direction of progress?" Kant responds, in Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (PPOE), that otherwise the sight of human history would become unbearable.
In particular, the media has a responsibility to think carefully about Afghanistan's interests and guide the society in the direction of progress.
He wrote, "If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
The previously mentioned Marx quote that "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it" is interpreted by socialists as the moral imperative for the organized society to identify the desired direction of progress and forcefully implement adequate policies to achieve this goal.
The speed and direction of progress through the diagnostic pathway is influenced by patient, healthcare and disease-related factors.
