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The Fatal Assumptions of Social Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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Since time immemorial men have believed in an inner spiritual core of the human personality. All primitive religions hold that man is inhabited by a spirit, however defined. The higher religions claim that man has a soul, that the spiritual nature is the true self, of which the body is a vessel. Since the seventeenth century these notions have been subjected to ever-increasing attacks. The critics of conventional morality include materialists of many different persuasions. However much they differ among themselves, they hold certain principles in common.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1978

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