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The Concept of Social Progress: an Epistemological Moment
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Խ․ Աբովյանի անվան հայկական պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան
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Epistemology ; Social philosophy
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social progress ; ideology ; criteria of the social progress
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Starting from some ontological premises of the concept of progress, the paper highlights the intertwining of the ideological paradigm and the epistemological paradigm in the understanding of social progress. The result of this intertwining is the relational and relative nature of the concept of progress. But the questioning of relativism leads to a fruitful though rapid analysis of criteria of progress measurement: because the relative nature of the concept of social progress doesn’t mean ethical equivalence of different standpoints about the concept of social progress, and in no circumstances indifference towards the ordinary people, or towards the human values.
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