Ethics & Morals Books

Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects for remodelling the religion and government of his empire, the ironical satirist, Sylvain Maréchal, thrust in his "Plan for a Law prohibiting the Alphabet to Women."[1] Daring, keen, sarcastic, learned, the little tract retains to-day so much of its pungency, that we can hardly wonder at the honest... more...

Das weltliche Leben ist voll von verschiedenen Beziehungen, wie die von Vater und Sohn, Mutter und Sohn oder Tochter, Ehefrau und Ehemann, usw. Auch kann man die delikate Guru-Schüler-Beziehungim weltlichen Lebenfinden. Es ist eine Beziehung, in der der Schüler, nachdem er sich dem Guru ergeben hat, ihm für den Rest seines Lebens aufrichtig verbunden bleibt, und indem er seine absolute Demut (Param... more...

CHAPTER I The most conspicuous occupation of the American woman of to-day, dressing herself aside, is self-discussion. It is a disquieting phenomenon. Chronic self-discussion argues chronic ferment of mind, and ferment of mind is a serious handicap to both happiness and efficiency. Nor is self-discussion the only exhibit of restlessness the American woman gives. To an unaccustomed observer she seems... more...

WHY WOMEN ARE CONSERVATIVE We have often heard discussions of the reason we do not find women, as a sex, in the vanguard of world affairs; why the great educators, strong figures in progressive or revolutionary movements, are men rather than women; why these movements, themselves, are made up almost entirely of men rather than women. People have asked over and over again why, in the fields of the arts,... more...