Cities Quote by Corliss Lamont

“Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.” quote by Corliss Lamont — Download Open image

“Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.”

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God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

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There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead…

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The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

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The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been…

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The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

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I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that…

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The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

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Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

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Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal…

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