Christian Classics
‹ Christian Ethics. Volume II.—Pure Ethics.
Contents
Note of Translator.Introduction.Section L. Classification of Christian EthicsSection 51. The GoodSection LII. The Moral.Section LIII. The Moral. (Cont’d)Section LIV. The Moral. (Concl’d)II. Relation of Morality to Religion.Section 56. Scientific Classification of Ethics.Section LVII. Scientific Classification of Ethics. (Concl’d)Chapter I. The Moral Subject.Section LIX. The Individual Moral Subject, Man.Section LX. The Cognizing Spirit.Section LXI. The Volitionating Spirit, Freedom of Will.A. Man as a Spirit. · Section LXII.Section LXIII. The Feeling SpiritMan as to His Sensuously-Corporeal Life. · Section LXIV.Man as to His Sensuously-Corporeal Life. · Section LXV.Man as to His Sensuously-Corporeal Life. · Section LXVI.Section LXVII. The Stages of Life.Section LXVIII. Temperament and National Peculiarities.Section LXIX. The Sexes.II. The Community-Life as Moral Subject.Section LXXI. God as the Ground and Prototype of the Moral LifeSection LXXII. God as Holy Will.Section LXXIII. God as Prototype of the Moral.Section LXXIV. God as Upholder of the Moral World-Government.Section LXXV. God as Holy Law-Giver.I. The Revelation of the Divine Will to Man.(a) The Extraordinary, Positive and Supernatural Revelation.Section LXXVII. The Inner Revelation.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · Part 1Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION LXXXIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XC.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION XCIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION C.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXXXIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXL.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLIV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLV.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLVI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLVII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLVIII.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLIX.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CL.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CLI.Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CLII.General Index to Vols. I and II.

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Section LXXVIII. The Inner Revelation and the Conscience. (Concl'd) · SECTION CXLVI.

Brothers and sisters sustain toward each other, in the same manner as consorts, though only in morally-spiritual respects. complementing relations; and their mutual love forms an essential element in the morality of the family-life; but this complementing is, because of the predominant like-character of the parties, never perfect and all-sufficient, and hence brothers and sisters naturally seek for complementing elements also outside of the family-circle. This form of love which passes beyond the merely natural communion and freely selects for itself the complementing personality, is friendship.

Also the mutual love of brothers and sisters is primarily of a purely natural character and requires to be exalted to a moral one [Gen. xxxiii; xxxiv; xlii, 24 sq.; xliii, 16 sqq.; xliv, 18 sqq.; xlv, 1 sqq.; 1, 17; Exod. ii, 4 sqq.; Psa. cxxxiii, 1; Luke xv, 32]. Brothers and sisters can never personally complement each other to such an extent as that the need of friendship outside of the family-circle should not arise; they are originally too homogeneous, too similar, to render attainable that full harmony that both requires, and perfectly consists with, large difference. Brother and sister complement each other much more than brother and brother or sister and sister; and they in fact usually unite themselves more intimately with each other than do brothers or sisters among themselves; nevertheless there remains also here, and especially as spiritual maturity draws near, an unbridged chasm, and there is felt the need of a harmony more vital—one that is conditioned on a more strongly developed antithesis. It is not a loveless turning away from the family, but a strictly legitimate impulse, when the boy and girl seek after outside friendship. This does not interfere with the family-love, but heightens it. Friendship is an enlarged brother-and-sister love, or rather it is its complementing of itself outside of the family proper; it is brotherly love as resting upon purely spiritual affinity. Hence friendship is usually stronger in the period of transition from the original narrow family-circle into new and more independent forms of life; and on the establishing of a new independent family-circle it is usual for the friendship of the consorts with others to grow less strong, and for new friendships to be less easily formed; wedlock-love occasions an enfeebling of friendship; he who in youth has Wad true friendships usually turns out to be an affectionate consort; and friendship with persons of the other sex very readily develops itself into real sexual love, and is consequently not without its essential dangers.