Has Public Morality Had Its Day?

The article considers the following question: in the course of human and social evolution, does public morality2 increasingly tend to give way to private morality combined with legal norms serving as social regulators? It is shown that such a tendency would be a consequence of the dominant (neo)liberal paradigm, which, since oriented towards the implicit idea of the “end of history”, excludes the possibility of social change outside of capitalism and liberalism.

Keywords: public morality; private morality; liberalism; capitalism; social change; political struggle