Secular personal ethics depends on a specific political realm to exist

Evidence

Baldwin remained committed to the idea that the disaster of our private lives shaped our public witness. We have to work on ourselves, if we are to live up to the kind of world we want to create. The props and crutches that have supported our individual identities in this country have been knocked from under our arms and feet. We have to make of ourselves a new creation without them. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 437 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethics abolishes itself when authenticity is found to depend on history — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 551; Secularism as state doctrine emerged from linking personal morality to legislative social reconstruction; Secular citizenship depends on a national personality it cannot shed (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Personal moral self-examination is the precondition for political change #complicates (0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 437