QUESTIONS OF FREEDOM AND PEOPLE'S EMANCIPATION

QUESTIONS OF FREEDOM AND PEOPLE'S EMANCIPATION 

Kobad Ghandy 

If the question of a proper value system is so fundamental to a future just order, how would one define the terms good/virtuous and bad/evil? Would these concepts change with changes in the system, culture, etc.; or would they remain constant through the ages? We have already seen in the earlier two chapters that for over three millennia, prophets, philosophers, enlightened intellectuals and revolutionaries have continuously sought good over evil. Whether it was the West or the East, whether it was BC or AD, the values that they propounded were much the same. Why, even the Communists speak of those very same values which they present as 'proletarian values' (good) and 'bourgeois values' (bad).