While for Kant that positions the argument for the progress of reason, Crummell sees it widening the ensemble of factors toward progress.
In any case the progress of reason is the moral determiner; "our life, our culture, and our civilization are but the result of the ceaseless energy of mind and body of all past nations" ("Rising Christian State," 64).
By taking a long view of history Mr. Harris argues that the modern view of how to vanquish enemies is based on false ideas: first, that history progresses; second, that it progresses toward greater influence of reason; and finally, that reason, through its powers, can overcome all opposition.
Religious conviction is often portrayed as being opposed to social progress and the use of reason.
Our shared national emphasis on scientific discovery has put our country on the forefront of technological and medical progress, and our acceptance of reason and empirical evidence as the basis of decision making, to the degree we emphasize it, is a secret of our success.
A Data Safety Monitoring Committee reviewed the progress of the studies, reasons for dropouts, and any reported symptoms annually.
In a subsample of about 50% of all GPs we conducted interim telephone interviews to ask them about progress of recruitment and reasons for non-inclusion.
Any sign of improvement in the state of homelessness in these United States is welcome news, and the National Alliance To End Homelessness is out with both evidence of progress, and reason for hope, by way of its 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report.
The whiggish image he crafted of Britain as a land of progress, liberty, reason, manly virtue and superior civilisation depended, Hall argues, on the contrasting reality of his female-dominated domestic experience.
Mr. Foster said that type of progress was reason enough to keep holding the retreats.
By undermining logic and science, Heidegger also undermined the Enlightenment — and the individualism, the freedoms, the claim to rights that are made in the name of reason and progress.
