Pathways to Ethical Culture Pt. 1 (NYS4EC)

Pathways to Ethical Culture Pt. 1 (NYS4EC)

So, went along to Pathways to Ethical Culture Pt. 1 (@ NYS4EC). 

17th March 2021

& it was great!

See: https://ethical.nyc/events/pathways-to-ethical-culture-online/

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From the NYS4EC's website:

`Ethical Culture is a humanist community that esteems ethics as its core precept, human worth and dignity as its central value, and community, sustainability and freedom as its principal goals.  Where did Ethical Culture come from?  What does it say to us today regarding the human condition? What is its unique contribution for our lives and our future?

Join us for a five part program that explores the origins, the history and the values of Ethical Culture – from its founding a century-and-a-half ago to the 21st Century.   The topics will be:

The social and intellectual roots of the Ethical Culture Movement.Felix Adler’s philosophical challenge – How to prove inherent worth of the human being in a harsh and precarious world when one abandons traditional reliance on God and the supernatural?Ethical Culture’s rich social justice history in the age of reformation and the modern era.The NY Society and Ethical Culture’s place in today’s world of modern humanism.Living Ethical Culture – How it offers a life of meaning, growth and authenticity.

Pathways is facilitated by the Society’s Leaders, Dr. Joseph Chuman and Dr. Richard Koral, and meets for one hour on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, March through July at 2:00 p.m. on Zoom.'

See: https://ethical.nyc/events/pathways-to-ethical-culture-online/ 

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Here's a diagram (or, digital handout?) that Joe (Chuman) kindly explained...

And, a screenie:

And, a groupie: (as opposed to, a selfie)

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And - here's some Random Notes I took, &/or made, &/or scribbled during the mtg/webinar: 
(...who knows, what they all mean? Not me, always. 
Some of them may even be totally: wrong. I can't even read my own writing, sometimes.) 
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Joe Chuman talked (great speaker! very engaged, and fun to listen to) about:

Historicism – (movements that `grow out of' their time, and couldn't have happened earlier in history)Ethical Culture – Felix Adler (@ age: 26!)Other `Religions of Humanity’… were around at the time...E.C. was a response to: the social oppressions that came with the Industrial Revolution (!)...The era of the robber-barons - Rockefellers & Carnegies, etcPeople were living in tenementsPublic health was a major issueProstitutionCrime, opium addictionThe Late 19th century was a mess (no unions, crappy work conditions, unregulated hours, no guaranteed wages, child labour, no mandatory education, etc)Huge wealth gap!Masses were: enslavedA period of massive urbanization, post Civil War, movement from rural to cities (thus overcrowding!)Most of it was aristocratic - and top-downRoosevelt was a racist & imperialist – but - broke up the huge monopoliesThere are 3 tenements created by NYS4EC - still extant!Walter Rouschenbush – social gospel movement (tenets of Liberal Protestantism)When it came to Labour, Adler supported both sides!He was critical of Capitalism - He was not a socialist nor Marxist, he developed his own `Third Way’Henry Moscowitz was very close to the workers and labour (and doesn’t get enough credit)The Social GospelSocial JusticePart of the Labor movement...The era ended around WW1 - but laid the groundwork for the New DealThe US is an oligarchy, that has moved towards a plutarchy (ie the current huge wealth gap)Reaganism and `trickle-down economics’ has been: a yuge failureEC =  Judaism minus the monotheism!What was Transcendentalism? – a huge movement – eg Emerson, Thoreau (environmentalism), Alcott Fuller, Theo Parker, etcJoe S suggests: Think of Emerson as, `the original New Ager’!! 😊

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Anyway, great webinar. I learned a lot!  
& Met lots of great people/scholars... 
...What's not to like?

(...& very interesting, how Felix Adler was able to get the "captains of industry" onside. Wonder who's the `modern equivalent' of Felix? ...David Sloan Wilson, maybe?)
& all very helpful, re: The EthiSizer

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 Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.


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