Democracy and Social Ethics · Chapter
Prefatory Note explained
The author explains that this book is based on a series of twelve lectures on 'Democracy and Social Ethics' delivered at various colleges and university extension centers.
What happens
The author explains that this book is based on a series of twelve lectures on 'Democracy and Social Ethics' delivered at various colleges and university extension centers. The informal style of the lectures has been retained, and the first-person plural pronouns now include readers. Acknowledgments are given to several periodicals for permission to reprint.
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
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- Democracy and Social Equality
The title of the lecture series directly invokes democracy and social ethics, establishing the central theme of the book.
Key passages
“The following pages present the substance of a course of twelve lectures on 'Democracy and Social Ethics' which have been delivered at various colleges and university extension centres.”
This book contains the core content from twelve lectures on democracy and social ethics given at multiple colleges and university extension programs.
The author introduces the origin of the book as a series of lectures.
“In putting them into the form of a book, no attempt has been made to change the somewhat informal style used in speaking.”
The conversational tone of the lectures has been preserved in the book.
The author notes the stylistic choice to maintain the lecture format's informality.
