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Originally Posted by peter12
It clearly doesn't progress at all. You can read about far more enlightened individuals, such as Socrates, Cicero,and Aristophanes, that lived over 2000 years ago.
Don't confuse ideological baffle-gab and technical prowess with "progress."
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Even the greatest philosophers that lived 2000 years ago had some barbaric ideas. We continue to use history to learn from the smartest people, to learn from our biggest mistakes and triumphs, but we have not reached a point where we have built the perfect civilization. That is why we are always trying to find better ways of living with each other, and finding self fulfillment.
I don't really understand what you mean when you say we are not progressing. Do you think we had at one point already reached the apex of civilization?