The 103 Great Ideas: Conversation on PROGRESS

1. What is progress?

2. What have been the patterns of progress, regress, stagnation in history?

3. What are the causes of progress?

4. When progress happens what is its pattern--is it uniform, localized, diffusing, oscillating etc?

5. What is the nature of changes the world is going through currently?

6. Vote on the next Great Ideas to discuss.

The conversation starts at 2pm; it is recommended that you arrive a few minutes early. No prior reading is necessary. Feel free to arrive late or leave early.

We will be joined by 15+ thoughtful conversationalists from various conversation groups.

The 103 Great ideas: The Great Books Project identified the Top 103 Great Ideas in Western History, on which the greatest thinkers across history in every discipline engaged in a "Great Conversation". See Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Syntopicon:_An_Index_to_The_Great_Ideas