is a draft or proposal toward the formulation of
such a consensus. It aims at finding a minimal code on which agreement is
possible. While not interfering with other benevolent approaches, whether
intuitive, revealed, or traditional, New Ethic limits its scope to the evidence
of reason and experience. Not related to the new-age movement, it is new only in
some specific senses: to the extent that historically the elaboration of a
democratic value system postdates the code of aggression characterizing
authoritarian regimes; in attempting to reconcile contradictions in previous
theories; and inasmuch as it is adapted to the conditions and realities of the
information age.
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has of
late enjoyed growing popularity, applies our principles to practical problems
encountered in daily living in the home, workplace, and the public domain. It
gives visitors an opportunity to indicate their approval or disapproval as well
as express their comments on message boards, rephrase the questions if they
think this helpful, and propose different categories for areas we may have
missed. The last section, devoted to individual counseling, invites you to state
an important decision-making problem you are currently facing in your personal
life and would like to receive help on. We promise you a well-considered,
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undertakes to carry out the
conception expressed above by summoning thoughtful and concerned persons
everywhere on the planet to join in. In a preliminary fashion we outline the
type of organization needed and propose certain values, but leave the
development open for consideration and to be tested by the touchstone of
concrete applicability. United People is based on a free association of equals.
We have no directors, presidents, vice presidents, officers, or subordinates.
There are no membership fees.
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