Morality, to be effective, has to be well-reasoned. To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a kind of education using con… - African Spir

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Morality, to be effective, has to be well-reasoned. To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a kind of education using constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make an artificial thing, devoid of lasting value.

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About African Spir

Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) was a Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of German descent.

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Alternative Names: Afrikan Aleksandrovich Spir • Afrikan Spir • Afrikan Alexandrovich Spir
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If the abandonment of religious and moral principles was to become widespread, the consequences could be become such that we would finally see crop up in the very heart of civilisation, a new and apalling barbarism capable of engulfing all the acquisitions of the past.
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