Evasion (ethics)

In ethics, evasion is an act that deceives by stating a true statement that is irrelevant or leads to a false conclusion. Quotes What seems to me to be driving our whole civilization toward the abyss at present is a one-sided conception of liberty, a conception that is purely centrifugal, that would get rid of all outer control and then evade or deny openly the need of achieving inner control. Irving Babbitt, "English and the Discipline of Ideas " (1920), Irving Babbitt: Representative Writings (1981), p. 66. The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norms, the greater is his individual immorality. Carl G. Jung, Psychological Types - The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol.6 (1971), p. 449 The most ruinous evasion of all is to be hidden in the crowd in an attempt to escape God's supervision. Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart. The most pernicious of all evasions is—hidden in the crowd, to want, as it were, to avoid God’s inspection of oneself as a single individual, as Adam once did when his bad conscience fooled him into thinking that he could hide among the trees. Søren Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, p. 127-128 (1847). External links Category:Ethics Category:Psychology