3 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Ethics

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on ethics

22. The essence of education is that it be religious. Pray, what is religious education? A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence. Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue, ignorance has the guilt of vice. And the foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

45. Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.

56. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.