Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last night Prof. Peabody gave an exceedingly interesting lecture in Sever II. on the Ethics of the Social Questions...
Ethics of the Social Questions. Ethical Theories and the Social Questions. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...
Ethics of the Social Questions. Ethical Theories and the Social Questions. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...
...great need in social reform is unity of action, and that unity can spring only from an adequate philosophy of the movement. At present, we have political economy and ethics but both are only parts of the greater philosophy needed. Political economy treats man as a gold seeking animal and simply observes the general laws that govern his conduct as such. It teaches that in the social world the great law of the survival of the fittest holds. Such teachings inspire the successful with complacency, but they drive the unfit into despair and revolt...
Economics is not and cannot be a panacea of social evils; something more is needed that recognizes other qualities in man besides his mere covetousness, and that will add to the question. Will it pay? the deeper question, Is it right? Economics is like a great mechanism, but it must get its motive power from the moral sentiment of the people. Science and sentiment join hands, - both are absolutely essential. Science without sentiment makes a man hard-hearted; sentiment without science makes a man soft-hearted. The influence of love must temper the reign...