...interests, because they are traditional, and exist in fact. . . . The tradition is its own warrant." "World philosophy, life policy, right, rights, and morality are all products of the folkways." When a seventeenth-century writer is to be compared with one of the twentieth century, common decency...

...regard to all the folkways, but the degree of it varies with the importance of the interest at stake. "Rights" are the rules of mutual give and take in...philosophy and science have been developed out of them. When the elements of truth and right are developed into doctrines of welfare, the folkways are raised...

...imposed on comrades in the ingroup, in order that the peace may prevail there which is essential to group strength. Therefore rights can never be " natural...philosophy and science have been developed out of them. The folkways are " true." The folkways are necessarily " true " with respect to some world philosophy....

...otherwise they could not answer their purpose, such is not the primitive notion of true and right. is its own warrant. It is not held subject to verification...philosophy and science have been developed out of them. The Folkways are "True." — The folkways are necessarily "true" with respect to some world philosophy....

...folkways and the mores "are a directive force." "Institutions and laws are produced out of mores." "World philosophy, life policy, right, rights, and morality are all products of the folkways." "They pervade and control the ways of thinking in all the exigencies of life, returning from the world of...

...same in regard to all the folkways, but the degree of it varies with the importance of the interest at stake. Some usages contain only a slight element...philosophy and science have been developed out of them. Definition of Mores. When the elements of truth and right are developed into doctrines of welfare,...

...upon stilts"; Sunnier showed his own Benthamite, utilitarian calculus by linking ethical standards to "reflections on, and generalizations from the experience...struggle for existence under actual life conditions." It was inevitable, then, that he would be an ethical relativist who judged the Tightness of "mores"...

...institutional, and empirical," in sum, "products of the folkways," and so indirecdy (or direcdy at one remove) "reflections on, and generalizations from, the experience...struggle for existence under actual life conditions" (p. 29). Mores Mores are folkways to which have been appended concerns for moral judgment and social...