Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 38 No. 4, 2018.
Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38413
Who, What, How? The Idea of Progress and Social Change
Ana Maskalan
orcid.org/0000-0001-9969-1507
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Amruševa ulica 11, HR–10000 Zagreb
Sažetak
This paper discusses the relationship between the modern idea of progress and social change. Although the negative criticism of human's intellectual and, more importantly, moral capacities in the creation of better society and the world have put in question the utopian idea of a bright future, the idea of progress still exists today. What remains problematic and can rightly be considered a shortfall of the idea of progress, lies in the answers to three questions: about the subject of progress (who is progressing?), about the object of progress (what is progressing?) and about the means of progress (how is progressing? i.e., how is progress achieved?). In an uncompromising confrontation with their responses and with the consequences of finding better alternatives to the long-standing premises of progress, lies the rehabilitation potential of the idea of progress and the therapeutic potential of social change.
Ključne riječi
idea of progress; social change; philosophy of history; future; social movements
Hrčak ID:
219476
URI
Datum izdavanja:
14.2.2019.
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