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Define carton of milk.
Progress as in not going backwards from secularisation to wide spread belief in idols, religious fundamentalism etc.
Auguste Comte claimed that human efforts to understand the world have passed through theological, metaphysical and positivist stages.
Theological Stage= thoughts are guided by religious ideas and the belief that society was an expression of God's Will.
The metaphysical Stage= Society such as around the time of the renaissance comes to be seen as natural and not supernatural.
The Positive Stage=encouraged application of scientific techniques
If we take this layout of stages of society...The middle east is still at the first stage, and we are at the the third (not saying it is the last) but never theless we can see it as 'progress' in that sense.
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Last edited by Brit Boi Gee; 01-27-2007 at 08:11 PM.
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