THE RELIGION OF DUTY
New York. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. Item #37400
1st Edition. Original Green and Gold Boards. 8vo. [3]-201 pages ; 18 cm. In English. Felix Adler (1851-1933) founded the Ethical Culture movement. While training to become a Rabbi in Heidelberg from 1871-1873 he was strongly influenced by neo-Katianism notions that one cannot prove or disprove the existence of a deity or immortality, and that morality can be established independently of theology. Giving up his Rabbinic studies, Adler founded the Ethical Culture Society in 1877 and the Workingman’s School (a free elementary school, which would become the Ethical Culture Fieldston School) in 1878. Contents Include: First steps towards a religion. - Changes in the conception of God. - Teachings of Jesus in the modern world. - The religion of duty. - Standards of conduct based on the religion of duty. - The ethical attitude towards others. - The ethical attiude towards pleasure. - The ethical attitude towards suffering. - The consolations of the religion of duty. - The essential difference between ethical societies and the churches. SUBJECT(S) : Ethics. In very good condition. (AMR-48-35).
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