12 Western ethics in historical perspective
Ethics is a philosophical discipline, and is therefore a product of intellectual sublimation and formalisation of the life wisdom accumulated over centuries in various cultural and religious traditions. Unlike scientific and technical achievements of our ancient and medieval ancestors – outperformed by the scientific and technical progress made in modern times, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the ethical considerations of the past still remain relevant and important because the evolution of human nature and interpersonal relations is incomparably slower than the evolution of science and technology. This is a motivation for referring to those considerations in the twenty-first ...
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