TY - JOUR
AU - Ellis, Grace Winn
AB - By GRACE W INN ELLIS HE main thing my generation has inherited is a loss of frame­ work, and this I call more of a possibility than a problem. By framework I mean a set of commonly accepted standards about what is true, what is right, and how people act. Several things burst the old framework. One of these was Ein­ stein's theory of relativity which tore apart the popular notion that science had discovered the laws of nature, and introduced the idea that knowledge is an uncertain thing. Another factor was Freud's discovery of the unconscious which did away with the idea that consciously we could fully control our actions. This left us realizing that ethics is much more compli­ cated than we had thought. Two world wars and a depression smashed the prevailing Vic­ torian complacency that every day in every way we were getting better and better. Progress in terms of moral behavior came to be questioned. In addition, rapid transportation and communication, the science of anthropology, and space exploration expanded our horizons and showed us that the way we had been doing things was not the only way they could be done, and that western 
TI - The Possibilities We Inherit
JF - Theology Today
DO - 10.1177/004057366802400402
DA - 1968-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-possibilities-we-inherit-H3nXwjCmpi
SP - 429
EP - 431
VL - 24
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -