The Key Features of Reason That Allows for Progress

Since the Enlightenment, the key feature that allows us uniquely to achieve all of this is our reason. But we can be even more precise than merely this. The key feature of our reason that allows for progress is a tradition of criticism which we can embrace as individuals and as whole civilizations. This critical approach is about recognising that what we know is not the final word. We could be wrong about it. So to make progress, we criticise it and through this criticism we can identify errors and then with some effort we can correct them by creating new explanations. Fallibleism. It is the opposite to relativism. In embracing the fact that you can be wrong about something, you realise that