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“We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.”

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Robert Neelly Bellah was an American sociologist known for his research on modern religion and social structures. His work, 'The American Civil Religion,' had a profound impact on understanding American society and culture. more

“There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.”

“Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment. Propositions in geometry may be proved, systems in physics may be controverted; but the harmony of verse, the tenderness of passion, the brilliancy of wit, must give immediate pleasure. No man reasons concerning another's beauty; but frequently concerning the justice or injustice of his actions.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.”

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Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.”

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Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition

“But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.”

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Book:And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion

Source: And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion

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