Then, in the next breath, he appeared to contradict this vision of progress, saying Israel "is looking only for more escalation for its military plans -- they are not looking to achieve peace".
Clearly, this vision of progress is hard to reconcile with anything as old-fashioned as democracy.
They represented a third variant in the struggle for the Afghan soul: they rejected the Western (and the Soviet) vision of progress, but they were enemies, too, of the mujahedeen and of traditional tribal authority.
Hegel was the greatest exponent of the teleological vision of progress that would be used to justify the European colonialist enterprise: the thesis that European civilization was not culturally specific but simply more advanced than others along a single ineluctable line of development, and that colonized peoples would benefit from receiving it.
Triggered by goals defined by the national development document "Vision 2023", and supported by the intensified construction industry, rapid urban growth multiplies a number of challenges and discrepancies between the official vision of progress and professional estimations of its possible outcomes.
This is what mainly juices Soderbergh, and his excitement in the presence of scientific progress (and it's truly a vision of progress) supplies the fundamental emotional energy of the series, far more than does the fate of any individual character.
UNICEF works with all its partners towards the attainment of the sustainable human development goals adopted by the world community and the realization of the vision of peace and social progress enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.
In "America at the Crossroads," Fukuyama describes the Hegelianism of "The End of History" as a version of "modernization" theory, bringing his optimistic vision of progress into the world of modern social science.
But the Popular Party government, in collaboration with the European authorities, has a very different vision of "progress".
