“In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.” WorldProcessAttitudeModernEthicsTragedyOriginalsPartingIrresistibleAffirmativeUniting Book:Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography
“The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.” MenWorldShouldHumansBeautifulQualityChristianityTeachPathModernHonestyDutyEthicsHarmonyAcquireMapsFraudGeographyArithmetic Author:David Swing
“What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.” HumansLittlesIdeasChristianReligiousAtheismModernSourceHonorMoralityStandardsEthicsDignityPositive AtheismObligationRecognitionObedienceGreekPrivate LifeMagnanimityPersonal Dignity Author:John Stuart Mill