The Moral Life

Some Reflections on Morality and Its Virtues

by Hugo Lj. Odhner

Second edition, revised

Published by the General Church Publication Committee Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 1985, Copyright, 1944

First edition, 1944, 1500 copies Second revised edition, 1957, 2000 copies Third edition 1985. 1000 copies

ISBN 0-910557-08-X General Church Press. Bryn Athyn. Pennsylvania

DEDICATED to the Parents and the Young People of the New Church

Contents:

• Contents
• Key to REFERENCES
• I. Three Kingdoms of Human Life
• II. Morality and Behavior
• III. Non-moral Attitudes and the Moral Sense
• IV. The Good. Act and Intention
• V. Moral Rights, Duties, and Values
• VI. Human Virtues
• VII. Morality in Social Life
• VIII. Morality and Marriage
• IX. Morality in Uses
• Conclusion: Inadequacy of the Merely Moral Motive
• Appendix. The Cultivation of Courtesy

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