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Felix Adler


Born
in Alzey, grand duchy of Hesse
August 13, 1851

Died
April 24, 1933

Genre
Philosophy, Ethics, Nonfiction

Influences
Robert Ingersoll, Auguste Comte, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, John S ...more


German-born American educator and reformer Felix Adler in 1876 founded the society for ethical culture, an organization, dedicated to the teaching of ideals.

The effort of people to live moral lives involved and applied this foremost philosopher. People frequently list his name alongside those of leaders Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Confucius, and Socrates. From the very basic premise of Immanuel Kant that moral worth of each and every person deserves both dignity and respect, Adler began.

Adler argued for the idea that each person act in a manner in accordance with and ideal of "self-actualization" and compatible with the social nature of humans. In this way, he like Immanuel Kant, a moral perfectionist, measures each action against a stand ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 96 ratings · 7 reviews · 151 distinct works • Similar authors
The Essentials of Spirituality
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Creed And Deed
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A Ethical Philosophy Of Lif...
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Life and Destiny, or Though...
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The Moral Instruction of Ch...
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The Religion Of Duty
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The Reconstruction of the S...
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The Punishment of Children
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Atheism: A Lecture
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OUR PART IN THIS WORLD: INT...
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“To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.”
― felix adler
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“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.”
― Felix Adler
tags: personality, quality, self, spirituality
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“Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.”
― Felix Adler
tags: care, ethics, humanism, morality, morals
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