Hard to say, history is blurry, we do know the past 300 years well enough that I’m ok with this level certainty.
I’m far from comfortable saying that there was no moral progress in say some Medieval European societies. Not perhaps from our perspective, but from a sort of CEV-of-700 AD values looking at 1100 AD one, who knows? I don’t know enough to have a reasonable estimate.
There was also useful progress in philosophy made before the “Enlightenment” that sometimes captured previous values and preferences and fixed them up. But again nearly any society for which that is true there was also lots of harmful philosophy that mutated values in responses to various pressures.
Do you think any human society ever experienced moral progress?
Hard to say, history is blurry, we do know the past 300 years well enough that I’m ok with this level certainty.
I’m far from comfortable saying that there was no moral progress in say some Medieval European societies. Not perhaps from our perspective, but from a sort of CEV-of-700 AD values looking at 1100 AD one, who knows? I don’t know enough to have a reasonable estimate.
There was also useful progress in philosophy made before the “Enlightenment” that sometimes captured previous values and preferences and fixed them up. But again nearly any society for which that is true there was also lots of harmful philosophy that mutated values in responses to various pressures.