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Nowadays the need to create (or construct) new ethical norms emerges constantly in the spheres of politics, medicine, ecology, demography etc. But can we call normative ethics (i. e. ethics which not only describes and explains facts of the society’s moral life but also postulates certain moral norms and principles) a science? The majority of contemporary logicians will answer negatively. According to them normative ethics cannot be a science since it is impossible to give scientific (logically correct) proof of i...

The author argues that liberal ideology arose out of Christian concept of man. But in the 20th century, Western European liberalism underwent essential changes. It gave up on the “divine authority” and became more pragmatic. †The Universal Declaration of Human Rights', adopted by the United Nations, in contradistinction to the American †Bill of Rights', does not rest on the claim of the “inalienable rights of man”, which have been endowed by his Creator, but only on the possibility of a consensus betwe...