Rethinking Progress Today
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Wang Xingfu
und
Li Siming
Abstract
Historical progress is a core belief of the Enlightenment and modernity, also a spiritual catalyst of human emancipation in the past centuries. However, due to the naive understanding of scholars and its misuse by political power, the idea of progress has fallen from a realistic political belief in the pursuit of liberty and democracy to a metaphysical faith and a one-sided ideology. Instead of abandoning the concept itself, this paper will provide a new version for progress. In this version, supported theoretically with ideas from a Marxian critique of the paradox of progress in capitalist society and a Habermasian reconstruction of social evolution and progress, progress shall not be understood as an intrinsic trend of history itself, but a “historical-practical project” of humanity. The intent of rewriting progress is to transcend the dilemma between progressivism and catastrophism while at the same time preserving its positive meaning.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Vorwort des Herausgebers
- An Exercise in Global Philosophy
- I: Global Justice – 全球正义
- A Vindication of Distributive Justice
- Principles of Justice in a Changing World Order
- Global Justice: A Utopia and Concern of Humanitarianism
- On the Justifications of Contemporary Global Justice Theories
- Political Reconciliation in Light of Global Injustices
- The Interdependence of Domestic and Global Justice
- Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
- The Ethical Constraint on War
- II: Global Philosophy – 全球哲学
- Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics
- The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue
- How to Justify Principles of Justice
- Universalism vs. “All Under Heaven” (Tianxia / 天下) – Kant in China
- Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xia
- III: Global Justice and Progress – 全球正义与进步
- Rethinking Progress Today
- Progress and Human Rights Justice as Evaluating Criteria for Global Developments
- Justice in Anthropocentrism. An Attitude Towards Contemporary Human Beings and Their Intellectual Crisis
- Towards a Transcultural Concept of Justice Based on Self-respect
- Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
- Moral Progress: Between Justification and Innovation
- Forms of Injustice and Regression
- Compulsive Growth and the Dynamics of “Perverted Progress”
- IV: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾萃
- Subjekt und Person: Zwei Selbst-Bilder des modernen Menschen in kulturübergreifender Perspektive
- Heideggerian Existence after Being and Time: In the Nameless ─ and a Brief Comparison of Namelessness and the Underlying Philosophy of Language between Heideggerian and Buddhist Perspectives
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Vorwort des Herausgebers
- An Exercise in Global Philosophy
- I: Global Justice – 全球正义
- A Vindication of Distributive Justice
- Principles of Justice in a Changing World Order
- Global Justice: A Utopia and Concern of Humanitarianism
- On the Justifications of Contemporary Global Justice Theories
- Political Reconciliation in Light of Global Injustices
- The Interdependence of Domestic and Global Justice
- Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
- The Ethical Constraint on War
- II: Global Philosophy – 全球哲学
- Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics
- The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue
- How to Justify Principles of Justice
- Universalism vs. “All Under Heaven” (Tianxia / 天下) – Kant in China
- Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xia
- III: Global Justice and Progress – 全球正义与进步
- Rethinking Progress Today
- Progress and Human Rights Justice as Evaluating Criteria for Global Developments
- Justice in Anthropocentrism. An Attitude Towards Contemporary Human Beings and Their Intellectual Crisis
- Towards a Transcultural Concept of Justice Based on Self-respect
- Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
- Moral Progress: Between Justification and Innovation
- Forms of Injustice and Regression
- Compulsive Growth and the Dynamics of “Perverted Progress”
- IV: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾萃
- Subjekt und Person: Zwei Selbst-Bilder des modernen Menschen in kulturübergreifender Perspektive
- Heideggerian Existence after Being and Time: In the Nameless ─ and a Brief Comparison of Namelessness and the Underlying Philosophy of Language between Heideggerian and Buddhist Perspectives
