• Charity Begins At Home and Justice Begins Next Door

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    Essays2 Philisophy

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Published: 05.03.2003.
Language: English
Level: College/University
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Without being polite and attentive to the surrounding you people, especially to your relatives and friends, it is absolutely impossible to possess these qualities for the others. I mean that there is a lot of people who cannot live without deception and fraud and always like to seem to be charitable, kind and understanding towards strangers whereas towards their parents, relatives and close people they are indifferent. What I mean is that I do not believe that that is a virtuous kindness, more precisely it would be to say that that is a deceptive kindness, and that means no kindness at all. If you learn to be charitable towards your own family and when you teach your family to be generous with your neighbours, then when you need help from your neighbours they will remember your charitable acts towards them in the past and they will return the favour, whereas if you are never charitable towards them, when you need help they won't be there for you when you need them. That is how I understand where to start looking for charity. In your own house, in your own country.…

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