Moral Progress: A Present-day Perspective on the Leading Enlightenment Idea

Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that the World’s order (as ultimately based on divine laws) is good and thus every gain of knowledge will have good consequences. Scientific process was assumed to entail moral progress. In fact some moral progress did occur in the Western civilization and scienc...

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Main Author: Andrzej Elżanowski
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Pedagogical University of Krakow 2013-06-01
Series:Argument
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Online Access:http://argumentwp.vipserv.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/pdfv3n1/argument_v3n1_Elzanowski.pdf