Original scientific paper

PROGRESS BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND THE PAST

Ivan Cifrić ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

The article brings the results of the research made in 1992 on the student sample numbering 547 students of the Rijeka and Zagreb Universities. The component analysis under the PB criterion has resulted in latent dimensions allowing the author to make the research on the relations between the latent dimensions of the „perception of the progress“ with the latent dimensions of the „development perception“, of „future“ and of the relation „nature-technique-man“.
The canonical analysis and inter-correlation matrix are showing that two tendencies in the perception of the progress connected with the dimensions of three groups can generally be discussed. On one hand, the dimensions are structured showing the „justification“ and „support“ to the existing progress, while on the other hand other dimensions are forming the structure which is „limiting“ and „denying“ the progress as such. The denial of the progress is linked to the naturalism, quality of life and catastrophic future, while the support of the progress is structurised round the dimensions of "non-critical technicism" ("resource optimism") and "humanistic and technical optimism", linked with the particular dimensions of the development, future and the nature-technique-man relation.

Keywords

anthropocentrism; future; progress; naturalism; development

Hrčak ID:

139081

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139081

Publication date:

15.10.1993.

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