The crisis of values in present-day society and public life
The crisis of values in present-day society and public life

Summary/Abstract: The 21st century is an age of post-modernism and, as Chantal Delsol maintains, it is a descendant of the French Enlightenment and its continuator together with the change in attitude to society and values held by it. The terror (communism, fascism, Nazism) experienced in the 20th century reigns no longer and democracy, which has successfully replaced terror, has achieved more than when physical force was applied to citizens. Inconvenient ideas are coped with in post-modernism by using irony, ridicule or by discrediting the values which a given group upholds. In this way, the individual is uprooted, torn from the world, from a definite social group, in order to make it happy. This state would consist in the fact that the modern individual would dispose itself of its particularity for a universality, wishing to become a human being, citizen of the world and not a man or woman. Post-modernism propagates, as did at one time the French Revolution, an ideal of equality which is to realize itself in the gender ideology. The thesis of the paper concerns the influence of revolutionary and evolutionary factors on the decline of values in present-day public life.

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