Mahatma Gandhi’s Checklist of the Seven Social Sins; or Recommendations on The right way to Keep away from Residing the Dangerous Life
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In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I unveiled an inventory of the Seven Lifelessly Sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and satisfaction – as a strategy to preserve the flock from straying into the thorny fields of ungodliness. Today, although, for all however essentially the most religious, Pope Gregory’s record appears much less like a method to ethical behavior than a description of cable TV professionalgramming.
So as an alternative, let’s look to one of many saints of the twentieth century–Mahatma Gandhello. On October 22, 1925, Gandhello published an inventory he known as the Seven Social Sins in his weekly informationpaper Younger India.
- Politics without principles.
- Wealth without work.
- Pleacertain without conscience.
- Knowledge without character.
- Commerce without ethicality.
- Science without humanity.
- Worship without sacrifice.
The record sprang from a correspondence that Gandhello had with someone solely identified as a “truthful buddy.” He published the record without commalestary save for the following line: “Naturally, the buddy doesn’t need the learners to know these items merely via the intellect however to know them via the center in order to keep away from them.”
Not like the Catholic Church’s record, Gandhi’s record is categorically centered on the conduct of the individual in society. Gandhello preached non-violence and interdependence and each single certainly one of these sins are examinationples of selfishness winning out over the common good.
It’s additionally an inventory that, if fully absorbed, will make the parents over on the US Chamber of Commerce and Ayn Rand Institute itch. In any case, “Wealth without work,” is a pretty accufee description of America’s 1%. (Make investmentsments ain’t work. Ask Thomas Piketty.) “Commerce without ethicality” sounds quite a bit like each single oil company on the market and “knowledge without character” describes half the hacks on cable information. “Politics without principles” describes the other half.
In 1947, Gandhello gave his fifth grandson, Arun Gandhello, a slip of paper with this identical record on it, saying that it contained “the seven blunders that human society commits, and that trigger all of the violence.” The following day, Arun returned to his dwelling in South Africa. Three months later, Gandhello was shot to dying by a Hindu extremist.
Notice: An earlier version of this publish appeared on our web site in 2014.
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Jonathan Crow is a author and moviemaker whose work has appeared in Yahoo!, The Hollywooden Reporter, and other publications,