The publication of the first Report of the International Panel on Social Progress is a significant intellectual event, both because of its hugely ambitious aim – of uniting the world's leading researchers from social sciences and the humanities to develop research-based, multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, action-guiding solutions to the central challenges of our time – and because it represents the completion of a mammoth effort in the service of this aim by a diverse set of 269 authors. In its attempt to synthesize and render accessible to social actors a broad range of the latest social scientific knowledge, as well as in its confidence that knowledge can empower those actors to make progress, it recalls D'Alembert and Diderot's famous Encyclopédie. Indeed, one can say that the Report is a quintessential Enlightenment project (cf. Bury 1920). For example, in his famous Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind (1796), Condorcet asserts the possibility of an accumulation of empirical and theoretical knowledge and the concomitant expansion in our capacities to alleviate social and natural evils. And Condorcet and many of his contemporaries were motivated to propose political institutions that would enable such an indefinite increase in knowledge so as to bring about the attendant improvement to people's lives.

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2018年国际社会进步小组（IPSP）报告研讨会简介

国际社会进步小组第一份报告的出版是一个重大的学术事件，因为其雄心勃勃的目标——联合世界领先的社会科学和人文学科研究人员，开发以研究为基础的、多学科的、非- 为我们这个时代的核心挑战提供党派、行动指导的解决方案——因为它代表了 269 位不同作者为实现这一目标所做的巨大努力的完成。它试图综合并为社会行为者提供广泛的最新社会科学知识，并相信知识可以使这些行为者取得进步，它回顾了达朗贝尔和狄德罗的著名百科全书. 事实上，可以说该报告是一个典型的启蒙项目（参见 Bury 1920）。例如，在他著名的人类思想进步的历史观概要(1796)，Condorcet 断言经验和理论知识积累的可能性以及我们减轻社会和自然邪恶的能力的伴随扩展。孔多塞和他同时代的许多人都被激励提出政治制度，使知识无限增长，从而为人们的生活带来随之而来的改善。