SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES 



XI 



MAN DEPENDS ON SOCIETY 



THE conclusions of the previous lectures resumed. No reform 

 could mean so much as that which would issue in a more 

 active social spirit and a more enlightened social conscience. 

 The weakness of appeals to sentiment, as compared to a 

 clearer version of what is right. 



Fallacies which obscure our view of our civic obligations : 

 first those of the Individualist, secondly those of the Socialist. 

 A sketch of the characteristic errors of both ; and of the way 

 in which a true social theory exposes and corrects them. 

 The errors in each case spring from ignorance of the depth 

 of the interdependence of the individual and the social whole 

 of which he is a part. 



Plato's exposure of the errors of the Individualist. The 

 extent of the individual's social borrowing. How in this 

 case we cannot repay our obligations without enriching 

 ourselves. 



