SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Realpolitik
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It means that your allegiances and obligations don"t stop at your family, you owe people everywhere: salvation religion breaks you out of the world you"re born into, the ethic of brotherhood: all human beings should love all human beings regardless where they come from. These types of religions deal with the world, the world of business, politics: active vs. passive religions and inner worldly and other worldly, active: looks at the corrupt sinful fallen depraved world, but we can do something about it. you have to work. Its just business: that links to the idea of universal love, the ethic of brotherly love: love everybody, the ethic of the economy: love nobody, for religions, there are two ways to live with that, how do you live with this unbrotherliness, you need to care about your own self. You don"t need to trouble your soul. You need to compromise in the ethic of brotherliness.
