Better Reading: Prose, Explanatory and Persuasive |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 54
Page 457
... individual conduct but also that they can exist only in the sphere in which the individual is free to decide for himself and is called upon voluntarily to sacrifice personal advantage to the observance of a moral rule . Outside the ...
... individual conduct but also that they can exist only in the sphere in which the individual is free to decide for himself and is called upon voluntarily to sacrifice personal advantage to the observance of a moral rule . Outside the ...
Page 458
... individual . Responsibility , not to a superior , but to one's conscience , the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion , the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others , and to bear the ...
... individual . Responsibility , not to a superior , but to one's conscience , the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion , the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others , and to bear the ...
Page 459
... individual to do what is collectively decided to be good . The periodical election of representatives , to which the moral choice of the individual tends to be more and more reduced , is not an occasion on which his moral values are ...
... individual to do what is collectively decided to be good . The periodical election of representatives , to which the moral choice of the individual tends to be more and more reduced , is not an occasion on which his moral values are ...
Contents
SPACE ARRANGEMENT The Battlefield of Waterloo | 7 |
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST True and False Humor | 13 |
ANALOGY The Stagecoach from Looking Backward Edward Bellamy | 19 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Lincoln American animal answer argument audience Axis Powers become believe bourgeois Carl Sandburg common Communists course critic Crito culture DeMille democracy democratic Dover Beach economic effect essay Europe evil fact fascism father freedom frogs German Grapes of Wrath Hitler Hollywood human humor Huxley ideas interest John Steinbeck kind knowledge land learned less liberal arts colleges liberty Lincoln live Lord matter means ment method mind minor premise moral nation nature never paragraph peace person phrases piece political present problem Professor proletariat purpose Questions radio reader reason religion Russia scientific scientific method Scientism sense sentence social society Socrates speech Steinbeck story things thou thought tion true truth United unto virtue whole words writing