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But the truth was that theological ethics had become empty and inadequate, and the problem was therefore urgent.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “But the truth was that theological ethics had become empty and inadequate, and the problem was therefore urgent.”
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Laski argues that the inadequacy of theological ethics created an urgent need for new moral frameworks.
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Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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