The Baha'i Studies Listserv To quote Don C, According to Baha'u'llah, this is not merely a new Dispensation, but a new age, the Age of Maturity. As such, what we are going thru' is the greatest change to the functioning of human affairs since the mythic "Time of Adam", when the Culture Hero societies replaced the Mother Goddess societies. The Adamic Cycle can be seen as the equivalent of going thru' puberty. We are now embarking on our maturity and it is time for us to grow up and take responsibility for our own affairs instead of waiting for mommy and daddy (kings/gov'ts/administrators) to tell us what to do. Rather, the new purpose of administrators is to remind us, repeatedly and persistently if necessary, what the proper principles should guide us. Shoghi Effendi made reference to this idea many years ago when he told local Assemblies to quit making up rules to enforce on their members.
Sent from my iPad On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:26, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > It's cause we live in a post conventional age unlike the conventional age of > Adam as referenced earlier in Against Nature. This age isn't about > materialistic and paternalistic people treating people as if they were sheep. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:16, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>> I remember talking about these concepts earlier. Post conventional morality >>> is based on a social contract and universal ethical principles without >>> regards to specific terms on which they need to be based upon. Conventional >>> morality is based on authority and conformity which requires a specific norm >>> and everyone to conform to it. Pre conventional morality is based on rewards >>> and punishments. >> >> Dear Stephen, >> >> As you have already pointed out these conceptions are all based on >> Kohlberg's ethical stages. The question is, is why should Baha'is feel >> constrained to fit into his categories and hierarchy? >> >> Susan >> >> __________________________________________________ >> You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:skg_z...@yahoo.com >> Unsubscribe: send a blank email to >> mailto:leave-697904-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@list.jccc.edu >> Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu >> Or subscribe: >> http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st >> Baha'i Studies is available through the following: >> Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu >> Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st >> News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st >> Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net >> New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:skg_z...@yahoo.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-697911-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-697913-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
