Kulturowe obrazy świata: jak możliwy jest postęp moralny?

Abstract

The issue articulated in the title of this article is examined in the context of epistemic progress in science and the question of artistically-aesthetic progress in the arts. In the case of science its development is functionally determined by the rule of essentially corrective correspondence, and its progress is measurable empirically; in the case of arts the development is determined by the need of evaluative-worldview efficiency, and regulated by the principle of adaptation, therefore the progress is not possible. Morality as a set of normative beliefs is similar to arts in its functioning: its evaluative- -worldview efficiency can be grasped (evaluated) only in terms of historical pertinence of particular moral values.