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Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer p15
Equally defective and objectionable is the system of punishment as taught by Christians, making, as it does, correction to proceed from a motive of revenge… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
The word “right” originally meant straightened; hence the common saving, “putting things to righty,” is understood as being equivalent to putting them straight or in… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
Orthodox Christianity appeals to the desires and fears of mankind. It is presented to the world under the two aspects of hope and dread. Some… -
Reflections on Ethics
Secularism is opposed to the orthodox idea that we should do right through fear of hell. This is the lowest and most selfish reason for… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
by Charles Watts (1835 – 1906) Introduction MOST persons can distinguish between right and wrong; but it is not so easy to decide why certain… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
The careful and impartial student of nature will discover that therein continuous law is to be found, but no accidents or contingencies. And what we… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
In considering the question of right and wrong we ought not to ignore any facts, however unpleasant they may be to some of us. Human… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
Alas! it is too true that the world, for the most part, has hitherto worshipped force. Poets, from Homer downwards, have thrilled thousands with graphic… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
Why should we be good? The answer, from a Secular standpoint, is: Because goodness, in itself, is the basis of all true happiness; it is… -
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer
While admitting that the moral brightness of life is some-what tarnished by the base, the brutal, the suicidal, and the insane characters that are still…