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Three Marks

Posted on December 6, 2018June 23, 2020 by admin

AN 3.136 Arising translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi (1) “Bhikkhus, whether Tathagatas arise or not, there persists […]

ETHICAL WILL

In order to appreciate the unethical element inherent in the State one has to compare it not with rival powers it has supplanted but with what it has replaced in its alleged sphere of ethical actions. It has replaced habit and customs. Ethical people, even within the State, make efforts to revive old customs, to bolster up the few that survive, or to think of new ones; they seem to realize that customs are the natural expression of the ethical will of society.

— Giovanni Baldelli, Social Anarchism

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