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Generalists vs Specialists
This has been called the age of specialists, but I have chosen to be a generalist because I want to know, see, hear, feel and experience as much as I can in my brief time on this planet. There are advantages to being a specialist such as money, fame, title and recognition, but these are not enough for me to want be one. At this point, I have been a professional soldier, pilot, social worker, massage therapist, photographer essayist and business owner with a computer consulting and survey research company. While not bringing me fame or fortune (yet), my sojourn through life has never been dull or boring, and I always look for, and forward to, more adventures.
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Morals and ethics.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman Mailer
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"But above all, the moral use of life...consists in exercising each and all of our faculties with the deliberate purpose of awakening the slumbering faculties in others."
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state"
Felix Adler, 1851-1933, philosopher and founder of Ethical Culture.
Dr. Felix Adler, Ph.D., 1851- 1933, founded the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the national and international Ethical Culture movements, and the New York Ethical Culture Fieldston Schools. He was a professor of Social and Political Ethics at Columbia University from 1902 until 1933, and he delivered the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford University in 1923. His colleagues included Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and John Dewey.
Dr. Adler was a prophetic social critic, civil activist, and religious leader. He pioneered in labor, housing, and educational reform, and in the movement to abolish child labor. He served as the first president of the Free Religious Association and the American Philosophic Association. His major books include: Moral Instruction of Children, Religion of Duty, An Ethical Philosophy of Life, Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal, and Our Part In This World.
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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The top ten ethics stories of 2004: http://www.ethics.org/today/et_current.html#top10
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Ethical Culture As A Philosophy of Life
Ethical Society members are free from any established creed because the Ethical Culture philosophy holds that a worldview is useful to an individual only when he or she claims it personally and then validates it in daily life. This insistence on freedom of belief arises from a philosophy that our founding generation called Ethical Culture.
Ethics: the Heart of Religion
Despite the differences among religions there is a common core of ethics at their hearts. This common ground exists because ethics are more than social conventions, manners, or customs. The ethical teaching of the world’s great religions, discovered through centuries of pain and progress, define the conditions necessary for human beings to thrive individually and collectively. For a good life, love must prevail, truth must be respected, honesty esteemed, freedom protected, and justice secured.
The Ethical Culture philosophy seeks answers to the great spiritual questions while remaining faithful to science, reason, and individual freedom of belief. It shares a common purpose with all who believe that God and Good are the same and that doing good is the true purpose of religion. Whether you believe in God or not, Ethical Culture asks you to consider whether you believe in what the different Gods of the world religions ideally represent: The capacity for good in the human spirit and the power of ethical principles.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman Mailer
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"But above all, the moral use of life...consists in exercising each and all of our faculties with the deliberate purpose of awakening the slumbering faculties in others."
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state"
Felix Adler, 1851-1933, philosopher and founder of Ethical Culture.
Dr. Felix Adler, Ph.D., 1851- 1933, founded the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the national and international Ethical Culture movements, and the New York Ethical Culture Fieldston Schools. He was a professor of Social and Political Ethics at Columbia University from 1902 until 1933, and he delivered the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford University in 1923. His colleagues included Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and John Dewey.
Dr. Adler was a prophetic social critic, civil activist, and religious leader. He pioneered in labor, housing, and educational reform, and in the movement to abolish child labor. He served as the first president of the Free Religious Association and the American Philosophic Association. His major books include: Moral Instruction of Children, Religion of Duty, An Ethical Philosophy of Life, Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal, and Our Part In This World.
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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The top ten ethics stories of 2004: http://www.ethics.org/today/et_current.html#top10
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Ethical Culture As A Philosophy of Life
Ethical Society members are free from any established creed because the Ethical Culture philosophy holds that a worldview is useful to an individual only when he or she claims it personally and then validates it in daily life. This insistence on freedom of belief arises from a philosophy that our founding generation called Ethical Culture.
Ethics: the Heart of Religion
Despite the differences among religions there is a common core of ethics at their hearts. This common ground exists because ethics are more than social conventions, manners, or customs. The ethical teaching of the world’s great religions, discovered through centuries of pain and progress, define the conditions necessary for human beings to thrive individually and collectively. For a good life, love must prevail, truth must be respected, honesty esteemed, freedom protected, and justice secured.
The Ethical Culture philosophy seeks answers to the great spiritual questions while remaining faithful to science, reason, and individual freedom of belief. It shares a common purpose with all who believe that God and Good are the same and that doing good is the true purpose of religion. Whether you believe in God or not, Ethical Culture asks you to consider whether you believe in what the different Gods of the world religions ideally represent: The capacity for good in the human spirit and the power of ethical principles.
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