ETHOS OF THE PREMODERN WORLD AND THE ETHICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
ETHOS OF THE PREMODERN WORLD AND THE ETHICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Summary/Abstract: A figure of a moral sceptic has been present throughout centuries long history of the philosophy of moral. A sceptic has appeared or is still appearing either in the character of ethicist itself or, more often, in the character of a person who tortures the ethicist and with whom the ethicist, explicitly or implicitly, settles account with its own theory. The moral sceptic does not have to be irrationalist although it has most often been one. He can even acknowledge a cognitive character of moral values, as the most recent forms of moral scepticism show. Nevertheless, an assertion that moral statements are false may not appear to be less discouraging to a common and interested reader of ethics books from the one which claims that they express our decisions or attitudes.

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