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The concept of ‘progress’ lies in morality and personality. Since Socrates, virtue grows through virtue as a result of progressive education in the right way of dealing with people as role models through practice, knowledge and constant striving. The human being as a personality is capable of improvement in intellectual and moral terms, which his academic achievements prove to him early on.

It is the principle of applying the moving asymptote to the circle or the ellipse of the conic section of life that marks the progress in its recognition in learning and practicing and beyond to biological maturity. In the ethics of life and in full accountability, progress does not cease intellectually and morally for the duration of life.

Self-education goes through biological maturity, because what has been achieved in the pursuit of perfection is still imperfect. For society, as for humanity as a whole, there are moral education efforts, because what is valid for ontogeny is to apply to phylogeny. However, ethically this is very difficult or impossible to translate from a good theory of what humanism is supposed to include in daily practice. So progress to the end remains an exercise in which the desired goal of intellectual-moral perfection is not achieved for the duration of life.