The Idea of Progress: Origin & Development The Idea of Progress: Origin & Development

The Idea of Progress: Origin & Development

J. B. Bury
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Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy

Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon

Cartesianism

The Doctrine of Degeneration: the Ancients and Moderns

The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle

The General Progress of Man: Abbe De Saint-Pierre

New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot

The Encyclopaedists and Economists

Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux

The Year 2440

The French Revolution: Condorcet

The Theory of Progress in England

German Speculations on Progress

Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution

The Search for a Law of Progress:

"Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851)

Material Progress: the Exhibition of 1851

Progress in the Light of Evolution

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2019
June 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
229
Pages
PUBLISHER
Musaicum Books
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
922.6
KB

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