Sentence examples for the 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.
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.
And by aiming to balance what he calls the "structural current deficit" in five years by an extra £40bn "fiscal tightening", while promising 25% cuts in unprotected budgets, at the same time as he hacks back investment allowances and lets bankers off with a levy that is dwarfed by their own bonus payouts, Osborne turns the concept of progress on its head.
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.
Our tolerance – in contrast to the intolerance of many of our ancestors – is evidence of the concept of historical progress.
The latter have little time for Mr Macron, an unelected former investment banker, and even less for anything that smacks of liberalism.Left-wing deputies consider the bill a betrayal of the concept of social progress, and an embrace of the commercial thinking more typical of Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Hollande's centre-right predecessor.
Martin and Irvine (1983) suggest that the concept of scientific progress should be linked to the notion of impact, i.e., the actual influence of research to the surrounding scientific activities at a given time.
But surely acknowledging the evolutionary origins of morality will help us revive the concept of moral progress.
