Modernisation, Ethics And Westernization

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Ashwin Kumar
Apr 24, 2019   •  125 views

There is society and there are people. People make the society. The society has been in existence for a very long time. Let's begin with the fact that how it arrived to be a group of people living a lifestyle and followed it till years to come. The first human species as we know originated from Africa and from 1 million to 2 million the species spread around the world in different continents. Well this is the evolution we are talking about.

Rather than going into much deep state of the evolution let's work on how the different policies of humans who turned into several people, who made society got engaged with something known as modernisation.

Before we go into the whole scenario of modernisation and adaptation of different culture into our own existence let's first look into the theory of modernisation.

Modernisation is basically an idea of progress which began to emerge in early centuries. People around the world had this idea of adapting new regulations of new lifestyle. The whole idea of revolution started to erupt in different continents as well. Modernisation defines itself to be a sort of phenomenon which includes transition from medieval or traditional to modern society. It has been going on since forever.

The modernisation has affected our daily lives and ongoing activities for better but does it affect our moral ? The morality of human being is in any kind of comprehension with the basis of modernisation?

Do modernisation make us view our thoughts in a different way than usual?
The case of ethics we say.
Let's look into that.
Ethics or etiquette are related in a psychological way with morality of humans and the fact should be taken into accord if it really varies along with modernisation.

The people have developed their own identity and it also depends on person to person. Their location, their background, where they have been living and how they have been living. The ethical background of a person depends on various factors. It is actually difficult to answer it with complete certainty.

Apparently there is one more topic which can be taken into consideration for this theoretical dilemma, westernization.

Just like modernisation, westernization is a concept of adapting, evolving and developing different customs and culture. The only difference that takes place in between these two is that westernization is an idea of adapting from different countries.

Coming back to ethicality of human nature. The morality hence, also drifts a little towards westernization.

However who weighs more, modernisation or westernization. Modernisation has brought some necessary and important changes in the lifestyle of human kind. Westernization is on a level below than what modernisation is. Modernisation as for fact talks about the scientific matters. The steps taken in thought provoking missions on different planets. The very basic and important understanding of this fact is that we are still working to solve the question that are we alone in the universe. This is all I believe is a part of modernisation. And we are growing with it and it's important too. For present generation and future as well. If modernisation wouldn't have existed in past then I guess we wouldn't be here talking about this whole idea.

Therefore modernisation of ethics not only exists only inside the parameter of human evolution but also on how people around the world are portraying their lifestyle.

Let's get on to some common facts. Social network which is a major reason for people to interact and learn from the people staying miles away from them.

This is just a simple example.
Modernisation of ethics as we discussed is a vast topic, any conclusions to it should be ideas of discussions and various other research on factors in alliance with it.

We as people need to grow, learn and adapt to situations and this can be achieved by this concept. The whole idea of human morality is something which in a very astounding yet unnoticeable way related to modernisation of society as well as our ethics.

But can we take modernisation in one hand and westernization in other and then look at the ethics? Well it might be different in multiple opinion. After all society is all about opinions.

Opinions can be changed. They are based on experience and expectations which will change according to time in near future.

I believe the concept of modernisation, ethics and westernization will cease to exist, when time will become meaningless.

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