The moral criticism of Western modernity according to Taha Abdel Rahman

Abstract

Care for ethical thought, in research, analysis and theorization, is steadily increasing day after day, and perhaps it is paradoxical that Western thought records remarkable progress in this field compared to our Arab world. This increased concern for morals is an echo of the depth of the moral crisis in the reality of contemporary man, which has led to the prevalence of nihilism or the loss of meaning, to the extent that this crisis of values ​​is considered a sign of the demise of civilization. This crisis had several manifestations, starting with the immoral science’s waste of human dignity, through its innovation of killing and extermination tools, which reached amazing levels of sophistication in killing and spreading terror, and to the economic systems that crush human humanity, n,

Keywords

• النقد الأخلاقي للحداثة