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phone: (212) 873 6500

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Affiliated with the American Ethical Union

Friday 30th of July 2010

Registration Part 1

If you prefer to register by regular mail, please download the following registration form (PDF format).

Please fill out the form below in order to participate in our web site as a registered user. This will be a two-step process: (1) your data will first be submitted to the leadership of the society for approval, and, if approved, (2) an account in our system will be automatically created. This process is intended to minimize attempts from spammers and other ill-intended individuals from registering.

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COMMITMENT TO ETHICAL CULTURE

Ethical Culture is a humanistic religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society.

Our faith is in the capacity and responsibility of human beings to act in their personal relationships and in the larger community to help create a better world.

Our commitment is to the worth and dignity of the individual, and to treating each human being so as to bring out the best in him or her.

The Eight Commitments of Ethical Culture

ETHICS IS CENTRAL. The most central human issue in our lives involves creating a more humane environment.
ETHICS BEGINS WITH CHOICE. Creating a more humane environment begins by affirming the need to make significant choices in our lives.
WE CHOOSE TO TREAT EACH OTHER AS ENDS, NOT MERELY MEANS. To enable us to be whole, in a fragmented world, we choose to treat each other as unique individuals having intrinsic worth.
WE SEEK TO ACT WITH INTEGRITY. Treating one another as ends requires that we learn to act with integrity. This includes keeping commitments, and being more open, honest, caring and responsive.
WE ARE COMMITTED TO EDUCATE OURSELVES. Personal progress is possible, both in wisdom and in social life. Learning how to build ethical relationships and cultivate a humane community is a life long endeavor.
SELF-REFLECTION AND OUR SOCIAL NATURE REQUIRES US TO SHAPE A MORE HUMANE WORLD. Spiritual life is rooted in self-reflection, but can only come to full flower in community. This is because people are social, needing both primary relationships and larger, supportive groups to become fully human. Our social nature requires that we reach beyond ourselves to decrease suffering and increase creativity in the world.
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR TASK. The democratic process is essential to a humane social order because it respects the worth of persons and elicits and allows a greater expression of human capacities. Democratic process also implies a commitment to shared responsibility and authority.
LIFE ITSELF INSPIRES RELIGIOUS RESPONSE. Although awareness of impending death intensifies the human quest for meaning, and lends perspective to all our achievements, the mystery of life itself, the need to belong, to feel connected to the universe, and the desire for celebration and joy, are primary factors motivating human 'religious' experience.

We hope you will be an active participant in the website of the ESWoW. We also invite you to consider Membership in our Society. If you are in general agreement with the and wish to be part of a community of people who attempt to interact with each other based on these principles, we invite you to apply for membership in the Ethical Society Without Walls.

Check the box to the left if, in addition to participating in the website, you want to be considered for membership in the ESWoW. Read the Values of Ethical Culture