The Philosophy of Loyalty
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There is no doubt that in our modern American life our social order does give to great numbers of people care and assistance and protection, such as earlier stages of civilization lacked.
But the other side of the task of providing our people with the means of ethical advance- ment, the side that has to do with letting them know what loyalty is, and with giving them opportunities to be loyal, this side, I say, of what we ought to do to further the moral prog- ress of our people, is at present v...ery imper- fectly accomplished.
With prosperity, as we may well admit, sym- pathy, benevolence, public spirit, even the more rational philanthropy which seeks not merely to relieve suffering, but to improve the effective powers of those whom we try to help, — all these things have become, in recent decades, more and more prominent on the better side of our civilization. And yet I insist, just as prosperity is not virtue, and just as power is not morality, so too even public 217 THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOYALTY charity, and even the disposition to train peo- ple, to make them more intelligent, to give them new power, all such dispositions are in- sufficient to insure the right moral training of our people, or the effective furtherance of ideal life amongst them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is no doubt that in our modern American life our social order does give to great numbers of people care and assistance and protection, such as earlier stages of civilization lacked.
But the other side of the task of providing our people with the means of ethical advance- ment, the side that has to do with letting them know what loyalty is, and with giving them opportunities to be loyal, this side, I say, of what we ought to do to further the moral prog- ress of our people, is at present v...ery imper- fectly accomplished.
With prosperity, as we may well admit, sym- pathy, benevolence, public spirit, even the more rational philanthropy which seeks not merely to relieve suffering, but to improve the effective powers of those whom we try to help, — all these things have become, in recent decades, more and more prominent on the better side of our civilization. And yet I insist, just as prosperity is not virtue, and just as power is not morality, so too even public 217 THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOYALTY charity, and even the disposition to train peo- ple, to make them more intelligent, to give them new power, all such dispositions are in- sufficient to insure the right moral training of our people, or the effective furtherance of ideal life amongst them.
What to read after The Philosophy of Loyalty?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Josiah Royce to read onlineMoreLess
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