Abstract
This paper clarifies the significance of philosophy for traditional societies and modern societies and their
evolution. In this paper ethics is the mainstream philosophy which studies and analyses the values of both
the traditional societies and modern ones. This paper is only the ethical study of the traditional values and
modern values. There are three ways to philosophize societies as traditional and modern: Ethical
perspective, economical and theological, but this paper deals only with the ethical approach. Philosophers
from ancient to modern era played an important part in the transformation of traditional into modern.
Morality and religion changed the mind of the nations towards development and ethical progress. In this
article ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, modern philosophy and others religious philosophies of
India, china, and Muslim philosophies exercised key attempts to study traditional societies and modern
societies. This paper highlights the factors that are responsible for the vices in traditional societies and also
the elements that are productive for the promotion of modern societies.