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Felix Adler. Creed and Deed: A Series of Discourses
Creed and Deed: A Series of Discourses
Table of Contents
PREFATORY NOTICE
CREED AND DEED
I. IMMORTALITY
II. RELIGION
III. THE NEW IDEAL
IV. THE PRIESTS OF THE IDEAL
V. THE FORM OF THE NEW IDEAL
A NEW ORDER
VI. THE RELIGIOUS CONSERVATISM OF WOMEN
VII. OUR CONSOLATIONS
VIII. SPINOZA
IX. THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY
X. THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE
APPENDIX
I. THE EVOLUTION OF HEBREW RELIGION
II. REFORMED JUDAISM
THE PURITY OF THEIR DOMESTIC RELATIONS
THE SCHOOLS
THE DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION OF THE SYNAGOGUE
THE INFLUENCE OF PERSECUTION
III. REFORMED JUDAISM
THE BIBLE
SOCIAL STANDING
PARIS, THE NEW JERUSALEM
THE LITURGY
"HEP-HEP."
THE SCIENCE OF JUDAISM
SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY
PRINCIPLES
PROSPECTS
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Felix Adler
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The principles of Epicurus not only adulterate the motives of goodness with the desire of reward, but they make the reward of desire the very sanction of all virtue, and thus deprive human nature of its best title to nobility.
Truly disinterestedness is the distinguishing mark of every high endeavor. The pursuit of the artist is unselfish, the beauty he creates is his reward. The toil of the scientist in the pursuit of abstract truth is unselfish, the truth he sees is his reward. Why should we hesitate to acknowledge in the domain of ethics, what we concede in the realm of art and science? To say that unselfishness itself is only the more refined expression of a selfish instinct, is to use the term selfish with a double meaning, is a mere empty play on words. We have the innate need of harmony in the moral relations; this is our glory, and the stamp of the Divine upon our nature. We cannot demonstrate the existence of disinterested motives, any more than we can demonstrate that there is joy in the sunlight and freedom in the mountain breeze. The fact that we demand unselfishness in action alone assures us that the standard of enlightened self-interest is false.
