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The condition of man hasn't fundamentally changed in the past 5000 years. "[...] we do not believe in progress. Progress implies amelioration; but man is alway
by smeagull 4y ago
The condition of man hasn't fundamentally changed in the past 5000 years.
"[...] we do not believe in progress. Progress implies amelioration; but man is always the same, facing a situation which is always changing, and choice remains always a choice in the situation. The moral problem has not changed since the time when it was a choice between slavery and anti-slavery – from the time of the war of Secession, for example, until the present moment when one chooses between the M.R.P. [Mouvement Republicain Poputaire] and the Communists." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y ago> Progress implies amelioration Progress NOW implies amelioration. Before the XVI century it only meant you were going from A to B. It's a new theology.
- skybrian 4y agoThat seems like a crazy thing to say, given that social and material conditions have changed so much. I guess you could say it hasn't fundamentally changed if you ignore everything that's changed as not fundamental, but that's tautological.