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Thirty years ago, Thomas Nagel wrote a shrewd essay entitled "The Absurd," in which he argued that, just as we can "step back from the purposes of individual life and doubt their point, we can step back also from the progress of human history, or of science, or the success of a society, or the kingdom, power, and glory of God, and put all these things into question in the same way".
His endorsement of the ideal of human unity prompts him to see a world republic, under which free and equal individuals, united by one global sovereign, would achieve a "fully juridical condition" (Pogge 2009, 198), as the ideal end of the progress of human history.
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Call that whatever you like, but it worked and we have seen, in the last 50 years, the most amazing economic and social progress of any similar period in all of human history.
In many countries ruling groups began to adopt the ideas of positivism, an ideology stressing a scientific analysis of human history and efforts to accelerate progress.
In its concatenation of murder and progress, "2001" subscribes to a tragic Cain-and-Abel view of human history, in which the price of knowledge is expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Alt-right ideas are going to progress because our ideas are based in a correct reading of human history, are morally unimpeachable, and they explain current events far better than the egalitarian orthodoxy does.
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.
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Religious history becomes fully part of human history.
And it's been happening throughout much of human history.
It is a constant of human history.
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