Öz As it is pointed out in the objectives of this conference, the Euro- pean-Atlantic world has to face a general crisis which involves ali fields of human activity. The relations between America and Europe them- selves are damaged by it. And beyond the frontiers of the western world, the so-called developing countries, struggling for their existencc, are be- coming more conscious of their interests and their power. For the first time, some of them challenge the western world with their independent oil policy. But a crisis much more serious rages throughout Europe: the crisis of her moral values. This is the problem I shall deal with. As an introductory remark, I must say that the western community is the unique one which believes in the concept of evolution, and which owes to that belief the development of its philosophical and scientific thought, the development of its art and general culture, as wc.ll as the political, social, and economic order it has given itself. The evolution of mankind has been most marked in this sole part of the earth. Thus, the crisis of vvcstcrn values and the consequent crisis of western civilization means simply that mankind’s process of evolution is entering a critical period. Hence the vital importance of the moral problem not only for the vvestern world, but for mankind as a whole.