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What is Moral Evolutionism?

Moral Sensism
and Its Critical Appreciation
in the Norms of Morality
Moral This is the theory of all those who holds that
Evolutionism morality is never fixed or absolute but, is
continually changing and evolving gradually
into a perfect morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche - believed that morality


– the distinction between right and wrong –
did not exist in the beginning or originally
unknown.
He was convinced that traditional
values represented a “slave morality
Moral
Evolutionism These are the laws/values derived
-Friedrich and based on the teachings of
Nietzsche Christianity

Developed an idea of the


“Superman/Overman”
He advanced this idea by saying that
“God is dead,” or the traditional
morality was no longer relevant in
peoples lives.
He was convinced that traditional
values represented a “slave morality
Moral
Evolutionism These are the laws/values derived
-Friedrich and based on the teachings of
Nietzsche Christianity

Developed an idea of the


“Superman/Overman”
He advanced this idea by saying that
“God is dead,” or the traditional
morality was no longer relevant in
peoples lives.
Is an ethical theory which holds that man is
Moral endowed with a special moral sense (other
than reason) by virtue of which man
Sensism distinguishes between right and wrong.

The basis of morality is man’s senses; what


a person’s feel about the human act.

This view expressed when we say he has “no


sense of morality,” “no moral taste”.

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