MAHATMA GANDHI: SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Excerpts from Chapter 7 - Seven Deadly Sins - Page 87 to 93
From the book Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey

Maharma Gandhi

PRINCIPLE CENTERED LEADERSHIP
Excerpts from Chapter 7
- Seven Deadly Sins -
Page 87 to 93

Seven Deadly Sins

  1. Wealth Without Work
  2. Pleasure Without Conscience
  3. Knowledge Without Character
  4. Commerce (Business) Without Morality (Ethics)
  5. Science Without Humanity
  6. Religion Without Sacrifice
  7. Politics Without Principle

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Mahatma Gandhi said that seven things will destroy us. Notice that all of them have to do with social and political conditions. Note also that the antidote of each of these "deadly sins" is an explicit external standard or something that is based on natural principles and laws, not on social values.

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Science Without Humanity

If science becomes all technique and technology, it quickly degenerates into man against humanity. Technologies come from the paradigms of science. And if there's very little understanding of the higher human purposes that the technology is striving to serve, we becomes victims of our own technocracy. We see otherwise highly educated people climbing the scientific ladder of success, even though it's often missing the rung called humanity and leaning against the wrong wall.
The majority of the scientists who ever lived or living today, and they have brought about a scientific and technological explosion in the world. But if all they do is superimpose technology on the same old problems, nothing basic changes. We may see an evolution, an occasional "revolution" in science, but without humanity we see precious little real human advancement. All the old inequities and injustices are still with us.
About the only thing that hasn't evolved are these natural laws and principles - the true north on the compass. Science and technology have changed the face of most everything else. But the fundamental things still apply, as time goes by.