Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courts could find no satisfactory answer, neither could the moral and political thinkers. Jones is at his best in working away at the ideas of Jefferson and the Adams on happiness, and how they affected the development of the American ethic...
...work would have been changes in popular definitions of happiness, something the author only hints at when he notes that the present concept "completely reverses the traditional American belief that there is discomfort in idleness, solid satisfaction in industry." And many would dispute this application of the Calvinist ethic of work as a good per so to the whole nation. The tradition of leisure has been especially strong in the South, was always present on the back-washes of the frontier, and is strongly ingrained in the Spanish Southwest...
Chaim Weizmann, the leader, died back in 1946, when he lost control of the world Zionist organization to the activists led by David Ben-Gurion. He had always opposed violence as a betrayal of the Jewish ethic, but Israel, perhaps necessarily, was born with war as the midwife. Weizmann was brushed aside and became a figurehead, enshrined, for past services, in a beautiful home in Rehovoth, surrounded by delicate Ming porcelains and modern French paintings...
...junior attempted to explain his stand to a gathering of over 40 people. He stated that his first principle is the love ethic, "If I seek only to love, who has power ever me? ... As I follow love, I am subject only to my nature as situations arise. Who had power over Socrates...
...average American, Author Halsey believes, is a double man. Thanks to his nation's moral traditions, the American is still taught as a child "the Judeo-Christian ethic" of "yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness." Then the morally instructed child grows into a businessman to whom "aggression, competitiveness and skepticism" are represented as the only ways of "being on the ball" and "going places." During working hours, the businessman plays to the hilt the role of the "smooth operator." Evenings and weekends, he attempts to revert to the honest, kindly role of principled Christian and loving father...