Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2]

"Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1" by Leslie Stephen is a series of speeches delivered to Ethical Societies during the late 1800's. The collection aims to tackle important ethical and social issues facing the people of the time. Focusing on logical thinking as key to knowing social problems, the author pushes ethical societies to find a modern way of approaching morals for the time. Understanding the purpose of these societies through reflection, the author looks objectively at social ethics, and comes to understand problems aren't historically new. Pushing against philosophical and religious ideas, the collection supports scientific approaches to ethics that explore both human nature, and social complexities; putting into place a need to look beyond old ideas and include rational examination, in order to properly understand ethical standards with the time's social realities. This starts a much more in-depth journey of how ethical understanding greatly improves social conditions.