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Book Progress as an Ideal of Action

Download or read book Progress as an Ideal of Action written by J. A. Smith (professeur.) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Idea of Progress

Download or read book History of the Idea of Progress written by Robert Nisbet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.

Book The Idea of Progress

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by John Bagnell Bury and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idea of Progress

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by Sidney Pollard and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1971 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Progress Principle

Download or read book The Progress Principle written by Teresa Amabile and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in The Progress Principle, seemingly mundane workday events can make or break employees’ inner work lives. But it’s forward momentum in meaningful work—progress—that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies, the authors explain how managers can foster progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: (1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy—and (2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their people’s performance.

Book The Idea of Progress

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  • Author : J.B. Bury
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2019-09-25
  • ISBN : 3734087376
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by J.B. Bury and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Idea of Progress by J.B. Bury

Book Ideal And Progress

Download or read book Ideal And Progress written by Sri Aurobindo and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Morality s Progress

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  • Author : Dale Jamieson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780199251452
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Morality s Progress written by Dale Jamieson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The 22 papers are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature.

Book The End of Progress

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  • Author : Amy Allen
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-12
  • ISBN : 0231540639
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The End of Progress written by Amy Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst—have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this critique? And what would a decolonized critical theory look like? Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resource we have for achieving emancipatory social goals. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future.

Book The Idea of Progress

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  • Author : Arnold Burgen
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2012-10-25
  • ISBN : 3110820420
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by Arnold Burgen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and the Idea of Progress

Download or read book History and the Idea of Progress written by Arthur M. Melzer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Francis Fukuyama's article, "The End of History?" prompted a wave of public debates about democracy, progress, and the idea of history. In this book, twelve distinguished cultural commentators offer a brilliant array of responses to those debates. Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters—none of which has appeared elsewhere—include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics.

Book The Idea of Progress

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  • Author : J.B. Bury
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN : 587933371X
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by J.B. Bury and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1955 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knowledge to Action

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  • Author : Alonzo L. Plough
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0190669349
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Knowledge to Action written by Alonzo L. Plough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ESSENTIAL CONVERSATION FROM TODAY'S LEADING VOICES ON EFFECTING CHANGE IN HEALTH AND SOCIETY "The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has changed the conversation about health in the United States." --Jo Ivey Boufford, President, New York Academy of Medicine In a society where a person's zip code is a stronger predictor of health status than their genetic profile, every public health challenge is also a challenge of equity, implementation, and policy. For better or worse, improving health requires societal change, and the scale of today's societal challenges can have a stifling effect on even the most well-intended efforts. Assembled by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and featuring today's most prominent voices from diverse sectors, Knowledge to Action is a collection of short conversations focused on the idea of meaningful change -- its definition, its impediments, and exploring how we can transition from research to action in health, well-being, and equity. Steeped in honesty and benefiting from the diverse experiences of an extraordinary assembly of academics, journalists, policymakers, public health practitioners, and researchers, this book offers provocative yet actionable perspectives that will benefit anyone who reads it.

Book A Philosophy of Social Progress

Download or read book A Philosophy of Social Progress written by Edward Johns Urwick and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth century Britain

Download or read book The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth century Britain written by David Spadafora and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.

Book The Standard

Download or read book The Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress

Download or read book The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress written by Alexander M. Bickel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: