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Page 56
... codes pro- vided that if , in beating a slave , an owner killed him out- right , he was liable to punishment . But if the wounded slave " continue a day or two " the owner was in the clear , " for he is his money . " 14 In the later ...
... codes pro- vided that if , in beating a slave , an owner killed him out- right , he was liable to punishment . But if the wounded slave " continue a day or two " the owner was in the clear , " for he is his money . " 14 In the later ...
Page 61
... codes equally the will of God , ends by repudiating both morality and the Christian God altogether . If one holds that these inconsistent and more or less provincial moral codes are equally divine in origin and therefore equally valid ...
... codes equally the will of God , ends by repudiating both morality and the Christian God altogether . If one holds that these inconsistent and more or less provincial moral codes are equally divine in origin and therefore equally valid ...
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... codes , civil laws and military de- crees . Additional authority always inheres in a citation , “ it is written . " Actually , a set of commandments , a collection of codes , are valuable as a trellis to which elementary moral insights ...
... codes , civil laws and military de- crees . Additional authority always inheres in a citation , “ it is written . " Actually , a set of commandments , a collection of codes , are valuable as a trellis to which elementary moral insights ...
Contents
A FAITH THAT LIVES | 1 |
FROM MORALS TO MORALITY | 20 |
MORALITY IS SOCIAL | 35 |
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