The West and Good and Evil.
Channel: Better future!
Date: 2023-06-28

The thesis I am going to present is that Western (secular) Humanism was always an underlying part of Western moral reality, but it placed a new destructive focus on mankind during the Age of Enlightenment. The focus of humanism has always been regarded by Western civilization as an evil human-oriented bias that undermines the ability for moral uplifting and therefore had to be completely subject to control. To explain this thesis, I am going to use an analogy. The comparison will speak about the founding principle of Western civilization as a human and communal ability to distinguish between good and evil and more precisely the methods available for that discriminatory ability. In addition to the ability to distinguish good from evil, this comparison must go further. We must see our civilization in terms of our ability to coexist with good and evil, emphasizing "living with other people" in a civilized community, while good and evil are always present.