morality
43 subentries
- morality. See also conscience; ethics
- always antecedent to religion (5:5.4)
- among gentiles, not necessarily related to religion (121:5.17)
- ancient secret societies aimed to improve morals (70:7.11)
- and religion (101:9sec) (160:5.4)
- concept of God as king-judge fostered (2:6.4)
- defined as
- acceptance of duty (5:5.2) (16:7.1) (16:9.11) (117:4.8)
- awareness of relativity of relationships (112:0.11)
- barely superanimal unless progressive (12:5.10)
- discipline of self by divine ideals (92:7.5)
- ethical values by which duty demands man abide (101:9.5)
- futile without cosmic insight (16:7.8)
- indigenous to human personality (16:7.1)
- indispensable to human progress and survival (101:3.1)
- inexplicable without God (3:6.3)
- insight into rightness and wrongness, eternal fitness of human relationships (147:4.8) (196:3.25)
- interaction of liberty and loyalty (39:4.10)
- motivation of goals (71:7.10)
- recognition of progressive obligation to Supreme Being (110:3.10) (117:4.8)
- superanimal but wholly evolutionary (5:5.1,4) (196:3.26,27)
- disseminated by morally fragrant persons (16:7.9)
- evolution of m. not wholly dependent on revelation (95:3.2)
- family life is progenitor of true (84:7.30)
- highest moral choice is to do God’s will (39:4.14)
- in spiritual greatness, morals are subordinate to unselfish service (28:6.20)
- inferior moral standards cannot invalidate presence of Adjuster (5:5.13)
- is to religion as duty is to love (102:5.3)
- Jesus never concerned with m. as such (140:8.21) (170:3.9)
- Jesus taught m. from relation of man to God (140:10.5,8)
- lowering morals produces sense of guilt (103:4.3)
- man’s understanding of m. only relatively true (115:1.2)
- modern religion’s overstressed and isolated m. (2:7.9)
- moral choosing usually accompanied by conflict (103:2.7)
- never advanced by law or force (16:7.9) (178:1.12)
- none would exist without religion (92:3.6-8)
- of act determined by motive (140:10.5)
- Pharisees spiritually blind but thoroughly moral (162:3.1)
- potential evil necessary for moral choosing (132:2.10)
- religion is ancestor of (101:0.2)
- Salem missionaries’ failed attempt suddenly to raise (95:1.6-9)
- soil in which revealed religion germinates (103:2.3)
- usually acquired among primitives with appearance of language (52:1.6)
- well-ordered society nurtures (34:7.4)
Cross-references
- See also conscience
- See also ethics
Cited alongside
Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.
- religion 371
- ethics 25
- gospel 113
- personality 146
- Thought Adjusters 272
- civilization 130
- duty 29
- service 68