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...would be a mistake to abandon the idea of progress because history does not follow a linear path to social harmony or because most progress??though certainly not all—has an embarrassingly Western origin. As logical positivists like Wittgenstein showed, it is a “pseudo-problem” to argue over which value system or civilization is objectively superior, but in empirical terms of human happiness, progress is a fact, one that it would be a disservice to human history and the future to deny...
...look at the empirical data and deny the existence of material progress, but many contend that there has not been concomitant moral progress??a sublimation of our intrinsic greed, cruelty, and penchant for violence into more a humane social ethos. Once again, as much as it may please us to romanticize the Rousseauian savage and see civilization as the source of all moral and spiritual malaise, an honest account of our ethical development cannot bear out our prelapsarian fantasies...
...deft caricatures of types that would have been glorified in 19th century England, these four “flowers of progress?? careen through “Utopia, Limited” with unreserved joy, building up the military, transforming the Utopian monarchy into a totally commercial state—hence the title—and swiftly seducing all three of the King’s daughters...
...addition, their tangible achievements aren’t a testament to social progress??it is football, after all. The winners and losers aren’t chosen subjectively—they’re chosen on the field. And as important as the coaches are, they only have so much control over what happens between the hash marks. True, an element of advancement exists in the naming of a black coach in the first place, but those benchmarks have long been passed by Dungy and Smith (in 1996 and 2004, respectively...
From the 1971 Bynum-Walzer Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to the two task force reports in 2005, the message has always been the same: “limited progress?? for women faculty at Harvard...