PETRAS MALDEIKIS The Problem of Modern Progress

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I. General Overview of Progress Issues

1. Progressive thought is the mainstream thought of this era

2. History of Progressivism

III. Criticism of the Theory of Historical Progress

4. Comments on the concept of progress

5. Progress and Change

2. Conservatism and Liberalism

1. Conservatism

2. Liberalism

3. Different paths to advancement

4. Conservatism and liberalism in the United States

5. Between two extremes

III. Current Situation

1. Advances in Exact Sciences

2. The one-sidedness of technological progress

3. Industrial Society

4. Artistic creation trends

V. Progress in Education and Trends in Modern Education

Four The decline of people, society and culture

1. Mass society

2. The public

3. Popular culture

V. The Problem of Freedom in Modern Progress

VI. Progress and Cultural Crisis from the Perspective of Spiritual Values

1. Christian and materialist explanations of the crisis of progress

2. Materialism means spiritual exhaustion

3. Act according to current trends

4. Progressive and conservative

V. Issues of the Spirit of the Times

6. Materialism is not real progress

VII. The Mission of Christianity in Western Culture

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