Felix Adler: 8 books

Creed And Deed Felix Adler, professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer (1851-1933) This ebook presents «Creed And Deed», from Felix Adler. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

Renowned professor and thinker Felix Adler was the primary figure behind the Ethical Culture movement, a quasi-religious initiative unattached to any particular brand of theism, which flowered in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this volume, Adler addresses parenthood and child-rearing, placing these activities within a firm moral and ethical framework.

The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life; it depends on facing frankly the thought of death; it is signalized, especially, by the identification of self with others, even of the guiltless with the guilty. Spirituality is sometimes spoken of as if it were a...

Published in 1905, this pamphlet consists of three lectures Adler gave before the Society of Ethical Culture in New York City.  After setting forth the responsibilities inherent in the married state, Adler questions whether divorce can ever be an ethical action, concluding that it cannot, but that in the worst cases of incompatibility or abuse the option of separation remains open.

The first essential is an awakening, a sense of the absence of spirituality, the realized need of giving to our lives a new and higher quality; first there must be the hunger before there can be the satisfaction.

Moral education is everywhere acknowledged to be the most important part of all education; but there has not been the same agreement in regard to the best means of securing it in the school. This has been due in part to a want of insight into the twofold nature of this sort of education; for instruction...

Wie wir wurden, was wir aßen Katharina Adler, Lucy Fricke, Jens Friebe, Peter Glaser, E.L. Greiff, Verena Güntner, Thomas Lindemann, Felix Lorenz, Elinor Richter, Tex Rubinowitz, Jochen Schmidt, Oliver Maria Schmitt, Sarah Stricker, Fil, Frau Freitag und Klaus Cäsar Zehrer sind es, die geheimnisvolle...