Mill and Wilson's ideas on progress are interesting in their own areas of study, but Mill's idea of progress and its characteristics is by far the more credible and applicable to our society because it stresses individuality and how experimenting leads to progress as a group in a society.
Mill believes that progress is development towards a more advanced condition and that our desires and impulses are strong, but they are balanced by other aspects of our character. Progress is also seen as all individuals doing what helps them personally without harming the group and helping the community as a whole. Even though Mill does believe that progress is the civilization evolving as a whole, he does fully believe that individuality is required for progress to acquire.
Overtime, humanity learns which beliefs survive testing and which ones are true and which should be forgotten. This is due to the idea of self-investigating, which allows an individual to test others findings, find experiences that apply to oneself, and to allow an individual to choose so development can happen in our full human facilities of choosing and thinking. These cause …show more content…
Despite the two being polar opposites, they still can agree indirectly that society is a complex issue in which the individual has a duty to either keep or change certain social norms. This is rather interesting to myself because it shows that even choosing separate methods of examinations the same central idea may be reached. However, the two do disagree somewhat on what is a vital component of progress, and the sole role of groups in relation to
Mill believes that progress is development towards a more advanced condition and that our desires and impulses are strong, but they are balanced by other aspects of our character. Progress is also seen as all individuals doing what helps them personally without harming the group and helping the community as a whole. Even though Mill does believe that progress is the civilization evolving as a whole, he does fully believe that individuality is required for progress to acquire.
Overtime, humanity learns which beliefs survive testing and which ones are true and which should be forgotten. This is due to the idea of self-investigating, which allows an individual to test others findings, find experiences that apply to oneself, and to allow an individual to choose so development can happen in our full human facilities of choosing and thinking. These cause …show more content…
Despite the two being polar opposites, they still can agree indirectly that society is a complex issue in which the individual has a duty to either keep or change certain social norms. This is rather interesting to myself because it shows that even choosing separate methods of examinations the same central idea may be reached. However, the two do disagree somewhat on what is a vital component of progress, and the sole role of groups in relation to