My Sons Have Defeated Me: Walter Lippmann, Felix Adler, and Secular Moral Authority
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2012
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The Journal of Religion
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In his 1929 A Preface to Morals, American journalist and political philosopher
Walter Lippmann wrote, “Modern man who has ceased to believe, without
ceasing to be credulous, hangs, as it were, between heaven and earth, and is at rest nowhere." The secular Lippmann located the source of this feeling of
unmooredness in the particulars of modernity, where the religions of the past
were no longer credible, but men (and also, although not in an identical way,
women) still sought something to believe in. If the acids of modernity—in his
famous phrase—had dissolved the worldviews that made religions plausible,
they had not dissolved the human needs that religion had fulfilled.
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Sarah Imhoff, "My Sons Have Defeated Me: Walter Lippmann, Felix Adler, and Secular Moral Authority," The Journal of Religion 92, no. 4 (October 2012): 536-550.
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