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In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I unveiled a listing of the Seven Deadly Sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pleasure – so that you can stay the flock from straying into the thorny fields of ungodliness. In this day and age, regardless that, for all however probably the most religious, Pope Gregory’s checklist turns out much less like a method to ethical behavior than a description of cable TV professionalgramming.
So as a substitute, let’s glance to one of the crucial saints of the twentieth century–Mahatma Gandhi. On October 22, 1925, Gandhello published a listing he known as the Seven Social Sins in his weekly informationpain step with Younger India.
Politics without principles.
Wealth without paintings.
Pleapositive without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without ethicality.
Science without humanity.
Worsend without sacrifice.
The checklist sprang from a correspondence that Gandhello had with someone simplest identified as a “honest pal.” He published the checklist without commalestary save for the following line: “Naturally, the pal does no longer need the learners to understand these items merely throughout the intellect however to understand them throughout the center as a way to keep away from them.”
In contrast to the Catholic Church’s checklist, Gandhi’s checklist is specificly targeted at the conduct of the individual in society. Gandhello preached non-violence and interdependence and each single the sort of sins are examinationples of selfishness winning out over the common excellent.
It’s additionally a listing that, if fully absorbed, will make the oldsters over at the USA Chamber of Commerce and Ayn Rand Institute itch. Finally, “Wealth without paintings,” is a pretty accufee description of The us’s 1%. (Make investmentsments ain’t paintings. Ask Thomas Piketty.) “Commerce without ethicality” sounds so much like each single oil compathe big apple available in the market and “knowledge without character” describes part the hacks on cable information. “Politics without principles” describes the other part.
In 1947, Gandhello gave his 5th grandson, Arun Gandhello, a slip of paper with this similar checklist on it, saying that it contained “the seven blunders that human society commits, and that motive all of the violence.” The following day, Arun returned to his house in South Africa. 3 months later, Gandhello was once shot to demise via a Hindu extremist.
Word: An earlier version of this submit seemed on our web page in 2014.
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