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Feb 17, 2011 · If there are no facts of progress, what we call progress are just narratives, written by those who are incapable of looking horrors in the face. In Charles Larmore’s view, narratives of progress are nothing more than instruments of “self-congratulation” (2008, 20).
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When he says that there are no facts, he means that there is so absolute truth with respect to any assertion we make about the objective reality we live in. Here are some more quotes that clarify this.
He argued that truth is impossible—there can only be perspective and interpretation, driven by a person’s interests or ‘will to power’. Against [empiricism], which halts at [observable] phenomena—‘There are only facts’—I would say, no, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations.
Oct 13, 2023 · Without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery, any progress. pg. 27. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.
A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates.
- Garrison Lovely
No Room for Social Reform and Progress. One of the strongest objections to relativism is the idea that if relativism is true, then there can be no such thing as social reform or moral progress.
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Jun 29, 2021 · Is there progress in philosophy? If so, how much? Philosophers have recently argued for a wide range of answers to these questions, from the view that there is no progress whatsoever to the view that philosophy has provided answers to all the big philosophical questions.
