18 Facts About Scientific progress

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Social Scientific progress is often improved by increases in GDP, although other factors are relevant.

Lagging social Scientific progress holds back economic growth in these and other countries that fail to address human needs, build social capital, and create opportunity for their citizens.

How Scientific progress improved the status of women in traditional society was a major theme of historians starting in the Enlightenment and continuing to today.

Two themes in the work of Robertson and Burke—the nature of women in 'savage' and 'civilized' societies and 'beauty in distress'—reveals how long-held convictions about the character of women, especially with regard to their capacity and right to appear in the public domain, were modified and adjusted to the idea of Scientific progress and became central to modern European civilization.

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The inferior status of women in traditional China has raised the issue of whether the idea of Scientific progress requires a thoroughgoing reject of traditionalism—a belief held by many Chinese reformers in the early 20th century.

The first complete statement of Scientific progress is that of Turgot, in his "A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind".

For Turgot, Scientific progress covers not only the arts and sciences but, on their base, the whole of culture—manner, mores, institutions, legal codes, economy, and society.

In Russia the notion of Scientific progress was first imported from the West by Peter the Great.

Four schools of thought on Scientific progress emerged in 19th-century Russia: conservative, religious, liberal, and socialist—the latter winning out in the form of Bolshevist materialism.

Intellectual leaders of the American Revolution, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, were immersed in Enlightenment thought and believed the idea of Scientific progress meant that they could reorganize the political system to the benefit of the human condition; both for Americans and, as Jefferson put it, for an "Empire of Liberty" that would benefit all mankind.

Philosopher Karl Popper said that progress was not fully adequate as a scientific explanation of social phenomena.

Iggers says that proponents of Scientific progress underestimated the extent of man's destructiveness and irrationality, while critics misunderstand the role of rationality and morality in human behavior.

World War I, World War II, and the rise of totalitarianism demonstrated that Scientific progress was not automatic and that technological improvement did not necessarily guarantee democracy and moral advancement.

The strongest critics of the idea of Scientific progress complain that it remains a dominant idea in the 21st century, and shows no sign of diminished influence.

Immanuel Kant argued that Scientific progress is neither automatic nor continuous and does not measure knowledge or wealth, but is a painful and largely inadvertent passage from barbarism through civilization toward enlightened culture and the abolition of war.

Some scholars consider the idea of Scientific progress that was affirmed with the Enlightenment, as a secularization of ideas from early Christianity, and a reworking of ideas from ancient Greece.

Thomas Malthus reacted against the concept of Scientific progress as set forth by William Godwin and Condorcet because he believed that inequality of conditions is "the best calculated to develop the energies and faculties of man".