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Ethics, Christianity, and Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

In the first part of this article I propose to describe two strongly contrasted situations in the world of thought, one of fifty years ago and the other of to-day. In the second I shall submit to my readers some reflections suggested by the contrast between the two.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1940

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References

page 39 note 1 Divine Personality and Human Life, p. 131.

page 39 note 2 Col. iii. 11; Acts xvii. 26.

page 40 note 1 Prolegomena to Ethics, § 285 (p. 307).

page 45 note 1 The persecution of Jews by Christians in the past, cruel, and unjust as it was, and contrary to the spirit of Christ himself, was based on no such principle as is put forward to justify that which is now in progress in Central Europe. It was in theory, at any rate, intended to promote the interest of the Jews themselves by driving them to accept the only conditions on which (as it was believed) they could attain to eternal salvation; while the acceptance of Christianity at once removed any Jew from the category of those liable to persecution. From this category nothing that he or she can do can remove a person of Jewish blood in Germany to—day; and no pretence is made that the persecution is in the interest of anyone but the persecutors.

page 47 note 1 Cp. Bergson, , Les Deux Sources, p. 304.Google Scholar La démocratic est d'essence évangélique et a pour moteur l'amour. Ibid., p. 45. Posez, par exemple, l'émotion quele christianisme a apportée sous le nom be charité; si elle gagne les âmes, une certaine conduite s'ensuit, et une certaine doctrine se répand. Ni cette métaphysique n'a imposè cette morale, ni cette morale ne fait préferer cette métaphysique. Métaphysique et morale expriment la méme chose, l'une en termes d'intelligence, l'autre en termes de volonté, et les deux expressions sont acceptées ensemble, dés qu'on s'est donné la chose à exprimer.