http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/ Perspectives from the history of Ethical Culture en-us 2004-12-18T18:44:54-05:00 In 2000, Jean Kotkin, a Leader at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, delivered the following Platform Address on... http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000136.html Inspiration Jone Johnson Lewis 2004-12-18T18:44:54-05:00 Felix Adler on the meanings of groups in our lives. The excerpt also includes a terse definition of "spiritual" as... http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000132.html Historical Documents Jone Johnson Lewis 2004-04-14T09:40:59-05:00 From 1926: As this is the Jubilee year of the Society for Ethical Culture, a stately, grave, and noble address... http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000130.html Historical Documents - Felix Adler Jone Johnson Lewis 2003-11-24T11:59:25-05:00 A statement issued by the American Ethical Union opposing the use of the death penalty for people under 18 at the time their crimes were committed. This is in accord with long-standing positions of the AEU opposing the death penalty as contrary to the commitment to affirm the worth of every human person, and contrary to our social responsibility to children. http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000085.html Current Positions Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-12-14T10:39:31-05:00 Felix Adler - 1884contributed to this site by Jean Kotkin, December, 2002 The festival of the Winter Solstice was originally... http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000082.html Ceremonies Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-12-04T11:13:07-05:00 An Ethical Philosophy of Life, describes the "ideal of the whole" as well as the concept of the "ethical manifold."]]> http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000083.html Historical Documents - Felix Adler Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-12-02T12:27:42-05:00 Jim Zwick writes about the "influential role" in the anti-imperialist movement played by leaders of the Ethical Culture movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. Articles by Felix Adler, William M. Salter, Jane Addams and others present an ethical perspective on war and imperialism. http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000051.html Historical Documents Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-26T11:58:44-05:00 I am in favor of implanting civilization in the East, and I believe in the necessity of emancipating the Filipinos from the bonds of ignorance. But civilization that is forced down from above on a people seldom lasts. It is not wise, it is not right, that Western ideas, unadapted, should be carried to the East. Probably no man has done more to arouse public sentiment in this respect than Rudyard Kipling. With his grip on words whose roots smell of the earth from which he has dug them, he believes the whole white race to be the chosen instrument of God to carry Western ideas to enlighten the East. http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000050.html Historical Documents - Felix Adler Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-26T11:44:17-05:00 Adler attempts to answer two questions on the ethics of war: "Is it treason to condemn a war waged by our country while the war is still in progress?" and "Are civilized nations justified in adopting uncivilized methods of warfare?" http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000049.html Historical Documents - Felix Adler Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-26T11:16:03-05:00 The Ethical Record with Adler's views on true versus false democracy.]]> http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000040.html Historical Documents - Felix Adler Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-17T07:24:28-05:00 From Horace J. Bridges, "Character versus Destiny," in "The Emerging Faith." http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000036.html Historical Documents Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-08T09:11:30-05:00 by Jerome Nathanson. "What, then, are the conditions of a good marriage? The answer, in its simplest form, is the meeting of the valid human needs of each party to it." http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000035.html Ceremonies Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-08T09:09:08-05:00 an address by Felix Adler delivered in South Place Chapel, London, June 7, 1925. http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000034.html Historical Documents Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-08T09:07:36-05:00 from Mr. Salter's opening lecture to the Chicago Ethical Society in 1883. http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000033.html Historical Documents Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-08T08:58:58-05:00 From Percival Chubb: a reading appropriate for autumn and harvest time. Once more the fields have ripened to harvest, and the fruitful earth has fulfilled the promise of spring. The work of those who labor has been rewarded: They have sown and reaped, planted and gathered. http://roots.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000020.html Ceremonies Jone Johnson Lewis 2002-11-05T09:40:46-05:00