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with principles and rules has been recently challenged by several ethicists who argue that the emphasis on principles ignores a fundamental component of ethics namely, virtue. These ethicists point out that by focusing on what people should do or how people should act, the “moral principles approach” neglects the more important issue of what people should be. In other words, the fundamental question of ethics is not “What should I do?” but “What kind of person should I be?”
It is here we find the Master making the position very clear to us when he stated “what is morality in the True Sense? It is that all the faculties may come in harmony for proper use. How does this happen? When a man begins to be away from the “Self”, it begins to develop.” The message is clear that we have to be out of the rings of “Self” or boundaries of “Self” that we have created for ourselves. Once we achieve this, we gain courage to face any situation in life and stand up to the higher values of life.
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