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Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Why We Need A New Philosophy of Progress

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The Importance of Hope in the Age of Discovery

There was a view for a long time that maybe our ancient ancestors were like the greatest people who ever lived and we the moderns will never surpass their knowledge or achievements. But Francis Bacon uses these examples as evidence of hope. The Marquis de Condorcet is this key thinker of the French enlightenment. And towards the end of the 1700s, he writes this book sketch for historical picture of the progress of the human mind.

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