Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Capitolo 5

judge of his/her his/her own moral attainments, and that it legitimately is not able
you use a preceding and less vigorous test. The advanced test owes indeed
includes that that you/he/she has already been reached;  but if it includes anybody
more, we won't succeed in going in before, while thinking with complaisance that we have
"it arrived" when in reality we have not started yet.

To reach the individual morality in an age that demands the social morality, to
pride a same on the results of personal effort when the applications of time
social rectification, is not to suddenly succeed in learning the situation.

Perhaps it is meaningful that a German critic has of slow he remembered us to
what a the one test that the most authoritative and dramatic portrait of
the day of offers of Judgment, it is the social test. The austere questions are
not in respect to personnel and relationships of family, but it made ye they visit the
poor, did the criminal, the patient and ye feed the hungry ones?

All around us are men and women to that they are become unhappy in respect
their attitude toward the same social order;  toward the dark circle
of non interesting job, the pleasures tightened down to those of appetite,
the conscience that declines of intelligence and the lack of mental food
what it characterizes the destiny of the great proportion of them
fellow citizens. These men and women have taken a moral challenge
raised by the demands of the contemporary life;  some are puzzled,
others that are denied the relief that brings strong action are equal
looking for an escape, but all being pertaining to in increasing way anxious them
actual relationships to the organization of base of society.

The test that they would apply to their behavior is a social test. Them
doesn't succeed in being happy with the fulfilment of their family and personal
obligations, and it is found striving himself/herself/itself to answer to a new application
behaving a social obligation;  they is become aware of another
requisite and the contribution that they would do it is toward a code of
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