2006-09-23 10:59:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Technology is different, but human nature has not changed. That's why reading the Classics still resonates so clearly, and why the challenges to ethics are as powerful now as they were then and still have the same bases: self-interest, self-gratification, pride, security, pity, charity, selfless kindness.
2006-09-23 18:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by dognhorsemom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what you mean by 'The demands of the Modern World on', but the ethical ideas were different. The ancient Greeks were much, much more elitist. For example, they held that if two unequal people love each other, the inferior should love more than the superior. That is why St Paul says that to the Greeks, the crucifixion is 'foolishness'.
2006-09-24 02:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Being ethical has always been difficult. The evil done today is no different than the evil done a thousand, two thousand, five thousand years ago. And it is done for the same reasons, primarily that it is so much more PROFITABLE to be unethical. Just ask the ghost of Ken Lay. Just ask Vice President Dick "Halliburton" Cheney. Just ask George "I'm a Uniter" Dubya Bush.
Shame, really. But history will have its say, in the end.
2006-09-23 18:31:37 · answer #3 · answered by Grendle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. VIRTUS - that means nth nowadays, that is a pity... But then...That was the base of the ethics...
2006-09-23 18:03:22 · answer #4 · answered by Lady G. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope.
2006-09-23 18:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋