The Progressive Worldview, Volume 1: The History of Progress from the Scientific Revolution to the Twentieth Century

What does it mean to be a progressive, not just in the narrow political sense, but in your philosophy, your belief system, your worldview?

The Progressive Worldview offers a three-volume response to this question, developing a detailed account of what it means to hold a progressive worldview and making a case for why we should. Volume I: The History of Progress begins this project by tracing the development of the progressive worldview from its origins in the Scientific Revolution through th...