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Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement.
Apr 20, 2024 · Felix Adler (born Aug. 13, 1851, Alzey, Hesse-Darmstadt [Germany]—died April 24, 1933, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an American educator and founder of the Ethical Movement. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)
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May 18, 2018 · Felix Adler (1851-1933), American educator and social reformer, was one of the creators of the Society for Ethical Culture, a liberal religious movement in the United States and Europe. The motto of the society was "Deed not creed."
Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a Jewish religious humanist thinker, educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Adler developed his thoughts based upon Kantian ethics and American transcendentalism developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Dr. Felix Adler, known the world over as the founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, died at 10 o’clock Monday night at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He was in his eighty-second year.
### Felix Adler, leader of ### he Ethical Culture Society ###ho died this week, was edu# for the rabbinate by his father, Samuel Adler.
Adler was appointed professor of social ethics at Columbia in 1902. His main writings include Creed and Deed (1877); Moral Instruction of Children (1892); Prayer and Worship (1894); An Ethical Philosophy of Life (1918), which is partly autobiographical; and The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal (1924; The Hibbert Lectures).
