Folkways; a Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, And Morals
The book Folkways; a Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, And Morals was written by author William Graham Sumner Here you can read free online of Folkways; a Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, And Morals book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Folkways; a Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, And Morals a good or bad book?
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The former prevailed. The Athenian doctrine was new and high and not yet current. In the Ion Ion tells Zeus and Poseidon that if they paid .the penalties of all their adulteries they would empty their temple treasuries. They act wrongly when they do not observe due measure in their pursuit of pleasure. It is not fair to call men wicked when they imitate the gods. Let the evil examples be blamed. In the Andromache horror is expressed of the folkways of the barbarians, in which incest is not prev...ented. In the Medea Jason, who is a scoundrel* and a cur, prates to Medea about her gain in coming to Greece : " Thou hast learned what justice means, and how to live by law, not by the dictates of brute force." She had not learned it at all — quite the contrary. In the Hehuba it is said to be a disgrace to murder guests in Greece, and in Iphigenia amongst the Taurians the same doctrine 468 FOLKWAYS is stated when Greeks are to be the victims of the contrary rule. " Barbarian " was a cultural category.
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