Word: ethical
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...near heresies, that Christianity substitute Tillich's concept of God as "the ground of all being" for the old notion of a transcendent personal deity "out there." In subsequent writings, Robinson has carried on his theological demolition work in other areas. Christian Morals Today argues for a flexible ethic in which the only commitment is to act out of love for God instead of absolute adherence to an objectively valid set of divine commandments. And in a series of lectures called "The New Reformation?," Robinson argues that when its basic truths are at stake, Christianity should preserve an agnostic...
Lawrence died in 1930, leaving generations of teen-agers to pore over his lyrical celebrations of sex (Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Plumed Serpent) as a mystical force that was its own imperative, displacing petty considerations of established custom, narrow morality or Christian ethic. For 26 years, until her own death in 1956, Frieda loyally supported the image of Lawrence as the ultimate male. But all the while she was writing an extensive fictionalized memoir. In this book, Professor E. W. Tedlock Jr. of the University of New Mexico has tried to patch together her fragmentary memoir into...
...Five Rules. Buddha was the rare mystic able to chalk out clearly to others the signposts leading out of reality, in the form of easily remembered shorthand formulas. The essence of his ethic came down in "Four Noble Truths": 1) Existence is suffering; 2) suffering springs from desire or craving; 3) the cure for suffering is extinction of desire; 4) to achieve the desired absence of desire there is an Eightfold Path of conduct to follow: right views, right effort, right mindfulness, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood and right concentration. As a definition of rightness, Buddha merely...
Here is a proper ethic for a self-possessed, acquisitive people, and here is a bit of the seventeenth century that embodies the principles of the twentieth. If the lessons of Plymouth could inspire the 1860's, the ambitions of Jamestown are suited to our own decade...
This struggle bears directly on the Senate race between Pierre Salinger and George Murphy. Murphy exemplifies the Midwestern ethic. Instead of addressing rallies, he discusses the campaign with small crowds in a subdued homey manner. In these little talks, the ex-song-and-dance man dispels the more frivolous connotations of his past by recounting his efforts to rid the entertainment industry of communist influences. His long association with right-wing crusades has garnered Murphy support from the Goldwater wing of the party, which includes most of the GOP's fundraisers and nearly all of its grassroots workers. Conversely, though...