I think it?s entirely natural for history to progress from a period when slavery is considered legitimate to a period where it isn?t. But I think it would be surprising if history went in the other direction. It seems to me that, throughout history, it is quite common to find things that were regarded as entirely reasonable, ethical, and acceptable in earlier periods regarded with great contempt and disgust in later periods. This is very true of our own traditions. If you read the Bible, say, you find that it is one of the most genocidal texts in our literature. It?s God who orders his chosen people to wipe out the Amalekites down to the last man, woman, and child. People wouldn?t be enjoined to do that sort of thing today; they wouldn?t want to attribute that to their God today. That?s the mark of some sort of moral progress.
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UNoam Chomsky (owazalwa nge-7 kaDisemba, 1928, ePhiladelphia, ePennsylvania) isazi solwimi saseMelika, intanda-bulumko, isazinzulu ngokwengqondo, umbhali wembali, umhlalutyi wentlalo, kunye nomlweli wezopolitiko. Ngamanye amaxesha kuthiwa "nguyise weelwimi zanamhlanje", uChomsky ungoyena mntu ubalulekileyo kwifilosofi yohlalutyo kunye nomnye wabaseki becandelo lezenzululwazi. UnguNjingalwazi oLaureate of Linguistics kwiYunivesithi yaseArizona kunye neZiko uNjingalwazi Emeritus kwiMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), kwaye ungumbhali weencwadi ezingaphezu kwe-150. Ubhale kwaye wafundisa ngokubanzi ngeelwimi, ifilosofi, imbali yengqondo, imiba yangoku, ngakumbi imicimbi yamazwe ngamazwe kunye nomgaqo-nkqubo we-US wangaphandle. UChomsky ube ngumbhali weeprojekthi ze-Z ukusukela oko zaqalayo, kwaye ungumxhasi ongadinwayo wemisebenzi yethu.