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Social Justice vs. Personal Ethics

Social ethics must never be substituted for personal ethics. Crusading can easily become a dodge for facing up to one's lack of personal morality. ...


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Useless Ideals

Quite frankly, I'm sick to death of ideals. I have so many ideals and I've been so frustrated by them, I really don't care for any more. What ...


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What's Eternal Life Worth?

For a little reward men make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarce lift a foot once from the ground.


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Dilemma of Society

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom ...


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Poor Memory

The Yankee Christian virtues ... have not been disqualified or proved inadequate; they have simply lost currency, which is to say they are no longer clearly ...


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Worth Dying For

No man knows what he is living for until he knows what he'll die for.


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No Useful Past

What is worrisome is the absolute domination of the present in so many homes, and the absence of any shared past. It isn't a class phenomenon so much ...


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From Morality to "Ethics"

How do we create symbolic virtue? We take the standards of morality that we have inherited from past generations. Then we "drain" away the idea ...


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Love and Conduct

The story of Christ's disciples suggests that love and admiration are powerful motives for adopting a person's values and ideas. By the same token, ...


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Not Strange Bedfellows

Many "sophisticated" political and social commentators complain that issues like school prayer are "distractions" having nothing to ...


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