I don't think we can have a reasonable conversation about the progress of philosophy without separating it's two major traditions, Continental and Analytic. Onc

I don't think we can have a reasonable conversation about the progress of philosophy without separating it's two major traditions, Continental and Analytic. Once you do, it becomes clearer where the progress has been made. The modern world stands on the foundations of the Analytic tradition and while I don't necessarily agree, some argue that it reached it's apex when it discovered Empiricism. Progress in Continental Philosophy probably ended at the same time, when it came up against our new found ability to test what is true. Now the remnants of it (that I know of), Neo-Marxism and Postmodernism spend all their time trying to attack the foundations of Empiricism. Because until that is done, they can't really move forward. I feel that all the worst parts of human history and many lingering pseudosciences came out of the Continental tradition. Communism, Fascism, Anti-enlightenment, Psychoanalysis, and many schools of Sociology. And while Sociology has potential, Marxism is to modern Sociology what Alchemy is to Chemistry.