Mind Your Principles

The 20th century comedian and film star Groucho Marx once famously said “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…..well, I have others.”

Groucho could not have appreciated how pervasive this cynical attitude would become in our time.  Along with the modernist teaching of so-called “situational ethics”, thinking like Groucho’s leads many to believe that no clear distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil, can be achieved.

So what exactly are principles?  My trusty Second College Edition New World Webster’s defines a principle as:

  1. The ultimate source, origin, or cause of something
  2. A natural or original

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Filed under: Authors, Gregg Alexander on August 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »