Westernization and Human Welfare · Maryam Jameelah
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- can in this life without depriving his fellows of their rightful share. Whatever relations give pleasure· to all concerned cannot· but be bene~cial. Consequently they saw no good in the traditional demands for chastity between the sexes.
- Having destroyed what they considered the foolish . errors of the past, the aposdes of the Enlightenment believed that reason and science, spread by universal mass education, would usher in a virtual paradise on earth.
- Now that man possessed the magic of science, it was within his power to shape his own destiny. Liberty, social and economic equality and universal peace would ‘reign over the entire world~ Ever .. expanding knowledge would forever banish all disease and suffering leading to an indefinite prolongation of human life. The technological and scientific revolutions of the following century’ served to confirm this new faith in the perfectibility of human life on this earth without the aid of any supematul’al power.
- Darwin’s (1809-1882) concept of the evolution of //man from lower forms of life introduced an entirely new
- scale of ethical· values.
- Philosophe!S now conceived of humaIi society in a constant state of flux and change inevitably leading to higher and more complex stages of development. The principle of biological evolution, applied to human society, identified the “modem”, “up-to-date”, “advanced”, and· “progressive” with what was most desirable. Historians came to look upon man as a product as well as a part of nature evolving to his present state from lowly origin, with all his achievements having been painfully acquired in the struggle against a hostile environment. Darwin CQD-
can in this life without depriving his fellows of their rightful share. Whatever relations give pleasure· to all concerned cannot· but be bene~cial. Consequently they saw no good in the traditional demands for chastity between the sexes.
Having destroyed what they considered the foolish . errors of the past, the aposdes of the Enlightenment believed that reason and science, spread by universal mass education, would usher in a virtual paradise on earth.
Now that man possessed the magic of science, it was within his power to shape his own destiny. Liberty, social and economic equality and universal peace would ‘reign over the entire world~ Ever .. expanding knowledge would forever banish all disease and suffering leading to an indefinite prolongation of human life. The technological and scientific revolutions of the following century’ served to confirm this new faith in the perfectibility of human life on this earth without the aid of any supematul’al power.
Darwin’s (1809-1882) concept of the evolution of //man from lower forms of life introduced an entirely new
scale of ethical· values.
Philosophe!S now conceived of humaIi society in a constant state of flux and change inevitably leading to higher and more complex stages of development. The principle of biological evolution, applied to human society, identified the “modem”, “up-to-date”, “advanced”, and· “progressive” with what was most desirable. Historians came to look upon man as a product as well as a part of nature evolving to his present state from lowly origin, with all his achievements having been painfully acquired in the struggle against a hostile environment. Darwin CQD-
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