A further influence of modern scientific experimental methods and technological innovation is utilitarianism and pragmatism.
Experience becomes the judge of reason.
The upshot of all this is two-fold. Anything from the past that does not suit this purpose can be ignored, discarded, ridiculed, or destroyed. This fulfills the rationalist end of the modern cultural agenda. The right relation of reason and virtue has since been inverted. Human ratiocination is now made the basis for determining on pragmatic, utilitarian grounds of subjective fulfillment what is moral, and rights have been made unilateral, absolute, and disassociated from obligations.