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Felix Adler war ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph deutsch-jüdischer Herkunft. Er war Professor für hebräische und orientalische Literatur an der Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Er wurde als Sohn des Alzeyer Rabbiners Dr. Samuel Adler geboren, der 1857 mit ihm nach Amerika auswanderte. Felix Adler studierte an der Columbia University, kehrte nach Deutschland zurück und promovierte an der Universität Heidelberg. 1874 ging er wieder in die USA, wo er für zwei Jahre als Professor für hebräische und orientalische Literatur an der Cornell University tätig war.

1876 gründete Adler in New York die für einen säkularen Humanismus eintretende „Society for Ethical Culture“, deren moralischer und geistiger Führer er bis zu seinem Tod blieb. Adler fand Anhänger für seine Ideen zunächst in vielen Staaten der USA, bald aber auch in einigen europäischen Staaten. Ein wichtiger Vertreter dieser Anschauungen im deutschen Sprachraum war der im Anschluss an Ludwig Feuerbach wirkende Wiener Philosophieprofessor Friedrich Jodl als Mitbegründer und Vorstand der „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ethische Kultur“. Das Bestreben dieser Gesellschaften wird als ethische Bewegung bezeichnet.

Von 1902 bis 1918 war Adler Professor für „Politische und Soziale Ethik“ an der Columbia University. Er war auch Gründer von The Ethical Record und The International Journal of Ethics , rief 1900 den New York Philosophy Club ins Leben und war ab 1928 bis zu seinem Tod Präsident der American Philosophical Association.

✵ 13. August 1851 – 24. April 1933
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“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.”

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Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Life and Destiny (1913)

“It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest toall the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.”

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Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Life and Destiny (1913)

“By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists ? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.”

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Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Life and Destiny (1913)

“An ideal is a port toward which we resolve to steer. We may not reach it. The mere fact that our goal is definitely located does not suffice to conduct us thither. But surely we shall thus stand a better chance of making port in the end than if we drift about aimlessly, the sport of winds and tides, without having decided in our own minds in what direction we ought to bend our course.”

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Section 6 : Higher Life
Life and Destiny (1913)

“Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.
It is the prerogative of man that he need not blindly follow the law of his natural being, but is himself the author of a higher moral law, and creates it even in acting it out.”

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Section 6 : Higher Life
Life and Destiny (1913)

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.”

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Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Life and Destiny (1913)

“The moral ideal would embrace the whole of life. In its sight nothing is petty or indifferent. It touches the veriest trifles and turns them into shining gold. We are royal by virtue of it, and like the kings in the fairy tale, we may never lay aside our crowns.
The moral order never is, but is ever becoming. It grows with our growth.”

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Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Life and Destiny (1913)

“Of the origin of things we know nothing, and can know nothing. Perfection does not reveal itself to us as existent in the beginning; but as something that ought to be, something new which we are to help create. Somehow the secret of the universe is hidden in our breast. Somehow the destinies of the universe depend upon our exertions.”

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Section 2 : Religion
Life and Destiny (1913)

“The divine in man is our sole ground for believing that there is anything divine in the universe outside of man. Man is the revealer of the divine.
At bottom, the world is to be interpreted in terms of joy, but of a joy that includes all the pain, includes it and transforms it and transcends it.
The Light of the World is a light that is saturated with the darkness which it has overcome and transfigured.”

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Section 1 : The Meaning of Life
Life and Destiny (1913)

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