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Must religion and morals go together? Can one be taught without the other? It is a practical question for educationists, and France tried to answer it in the dreariest little cut and dry kind of catechism ever given to boys to make them long to be wicked. But apart from education, the question of the bedrock on which morals rest, the foundation on which a moral edifice can be built that will stand secure against the storms of life—that is a question of perennial interest, and it must be answered by each of us, if we would have a test of Right and Wrong, would know why Right is Right, why Wrong is Wrong.
The Basis of Morality, by Annie Besant- Amazon Sales Rank: #6129568 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .7" w x 6.00" l, .12 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 28 pages
About the Author Annie Besant (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule. At age 20 she married Frank Besant, but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society (NSS) and writer and a close friend of Charles Bradlaugh. In 1877 they were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton. The scandal made them famous, and Bradlaugh was elected M.P. for Northampton in 1880.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful. A quick sketch By Paul J. Leach Published in 1915 by Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, India.This short book (about 22 pages) discusses five possible bases for morality: revelation, intuition, utility, evolution, and mysticism.Revelation is the word of God. It can't be the basis of morality because even if the revealed rules were appropriate at the time of their revelation, conditions always change, and they become invalid.(She notes that it should be an all-or-nothing proposition: once a body of writing is accepted as revelation, one can't pick and choose from among the rules of behavior it contains which should be obeyed. She observes that most religions do so anyway.)Intuition is the same as "conscience". It can't be the basis, since it varies in time and place, and many evils have been carried out in its name.Utility means "the greatest happiness for the greatest number". This seems good: it is less subjective than the previous two. One problem is that no one has worked out actual rules of behavior that will attain that goal. Another problem is that the most people are selfish individuals and aren't inspired by it to act morally. So it can't be the basis either.Evolution is the "unfolding and manifestation of life-energies". It (she says) is the correct basis for morality. It is not Darwinian evolution, bur she tries to appropriate its prestige in order to claim her basis for morality is just as much a natural law. The argument is too complicated to summarize here, but it proceeds from the vague definition above and is in my opinion not very compelling.Mysticism can't be a basis in the same way as any of the above, because it provides guidance only to the individual mystic.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. As a Christian I've never read a more screwed up ... By David N. Norwood As a Christian I've never read a more screwed up perspective on morality. When I got to letting your conscience guide you because you've learned and retained so much from prior lives I quit.
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