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To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Contrariwise, without religion, in the long run ethics tends to lose touch with reverence, respect, responsibility and restraint.
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We are changed, not by what we receive, but what we do.
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Abraham is the refutation of determinism. There are structures of power, but we can stand outside them. There are genetic influences on our behaviour, but we can master them. We are shaped by our parents, but we can go beyond them.
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We become what we do. One who is irascible must accustom himself to stay calm. A coward must risk danger. A miser must repeatedly give. My late
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Hessed is the gift of love that begets love.
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Suffering is less a punishment for sins than a call to return.
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God is the bridge that spans the metaphysical abyss between self and other, me and you. Just as I acknowledge my brothers because I know I have a father, and I know they stand in the same relationship to him as I do, so the parenthood of God turns humanity into a single extended family with all the mutual obligations that entails.
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He began studying people who had a positive approach to life. What they had in common, he found, was optimism, and this in turn had to do with their cognitive styles. They tended to see setbacks as temporary, not permanent; accidental, not essential; exceptional, not pervasive.20
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The ‘ways of peace’ apply to idolaters – those opposed to everything we believe. None the less, the sages ruled, we have basic responsibilities to them, not only the negative duty not to harm but the positive duty of welfare.
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