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All you had to do was follow the Yellow Brick Road of endless progress.
Liberalism in the loose sense – with its anticipation of endless progress and its assumption that European norms were the apogee of civilisation – was in the ascendant.
But he affirms that those conditions are compatible with endless progress and that the human mind can assign no fixed limits to its own advancement in knowledge and virtue or even to the prolongation of bodily life.
The 21st century has brought devastating challenges to this worldview: the Sept. 11 attacks and the catastrophic occupations in the Middle East; the financial crisis and the end of the belief that endless progress was possible for many.
He stresses that he has joined with these groups because "there should be a centre-right group in Europe that wants [the European Union to be] an open, flexible, trading Europe, rather than the endless progress towards a more federalised Europe".
Kant continues: "This endless progress is, however, possible only on the presupposition of the existence and personality of the same rational being continuing endlessly (which is called the immortality of the soul).
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If, instead of appearing to be a huge sacrifice, the reduction of consumption was experienced as part of an exciting spiritual journey, it might just be possible for us to get off the juggernaut of endless material "progress" before it destroys everything.
Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
He regularly read from this endless work in progress at open-mike nights, had even had a few of the poems published in double-digit-circulation pamphlets and once reputable, now posthumous journals.
Still, once we hear the trapdoor on the gallows open, followed by the anguished offstage cry of Despard's wife, Catherine (played, with great ardor but too much Angela Bassett-like nobility, by Eisa Davis), we're no longer in a theatre but in a lecture hall, where there is an endless lesson in progress — on miscegenation, racism, and class.
The glorious thing about a newspaper is you print a new one every day, so consider our efforts an endless work in progress.
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