Published: 2018-10-081

On Fragility of the Idea of Moral Progress

Witold Tulibacki

Abstract

Referring to the acknowledged through a range of ethical concepts belief concerning the ongoging process of progress and moral improvement and comparing this belief to the cultural and civilizational experience as well as to the contemporary interpretation of Homo sapiens behavioral patterns rooted in modern science about man, as well as theoretical simplifications based on social and biological science - the author concludes the lack of concrete foundations for proving the correctness of the assumptions concerning the existence of moral progress. In the face of the permanent threat to the humankind survival resulting from biological and civilizational determiners, the author perceives the only effective way of sustaining the threat in the solutions offered by the genetic engineering that is oriented on biological manipulation in order to „reconstruct” man.

Keywords:

manipulation of mass awareness, aggression, changeability of morality, reprisal, retalitation, damage, wars

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Tulibacki, W. (2018). On Fragility of the Idea of Moral Progress. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (11), 7–17. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/1416

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