The idea of progress is a product of historical thinking. It is a
bold interpretation of history that combines understandings of the
past, perceptions of the present and expectations of the future.
This Element examines the shifting scale of this past, present and
future configuration from antiquity to the present day. It develops
five categories that reveal the conceptual features of progress
together with the philosophies of history in which they have been
enmeshed, from temporal outlooks that held no notion of progress to
universal histories that viewed progress as a law of nature, from
speculation on the meaning and direction of history to the total
rejection of all historical constructions. Global in scope and
conversant with present-day debates in the theory and philosophy of
history, the argument throughout is that the scale on which we
conceive history plays a determining role in how we think about
progress.
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