Is there a moral progress in history?

Abstract

The mere fact of posing this question implies a series of assumptions, each of which would lead to a long discussion, which, as often happens with this type of discussions, would end without agreements.
Without wanting to enter into this debate in depth, let's begin by going through some, if not to solve the problems, at least to make explicit the inevitable prejudices from which we approach the subject.
And clarifying, from the beginning, that we approach it from a point of view focused on Western European culture and, therefore, adopting -critically- the assumptions of enlightened modernity and the concept of reason that we have inherited from it. Which does not prevent - rather it demands - a universal point of view.