Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ethics of the Social Questions. The Ethics of Charity. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...
...Social questions are in reality, moral ones. Even behind all economic and political questions, lies the fact that the conscience of the country is pricked with shame. All these things find a partial solution in an attempt to form an ethical theory...
...never alone. Human life is begun in society, in a social group, of at least three, the father, mother, and the child itself, and as it grows, its group broadens, and its absorption of outside influences increases, till isolation is absolutely impossible...
...phrase, social organism, is the key to the new ethics. Although the individual is to be studied in relation to the organism in which he is found, as he bears his share of its trials and its fortunes, the analogy between him and the social body must be limited. Hobbs, however, states the very opposite. He declares that the social life is entirely artificial, that the natural state is one of isolation; a commonwealth makes an artificial man. But this commonwealth must surely be the inevitable condition of human life; the natural man of Hobbs would only have the desolate...
Then there are the ethics of the family. Here comes the divorce problem, the disruption of social groups. How shall man and woman stand in this organism? Lastly, charity, is the problem of the duty of rich to poor. From self-indulgence on the one hand to social resolution on the other is but a single logical step. Ethics says that stability and prosperity are only to be reach by establishing a relation of peaceful alliance...