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What is a work ethic?
These days we read a lot about the "work ethic," sometimes called the Puritan work ethic. We read that it is being questioned and challenged. But what is a work ethic?
The words "ethic" and "ethics" refer to systems of moral values and their underlying philosophy. The work ethic, then, has to do with a school of thought which holds that idleness is reprehensible and work an essential of moral living.

July 24, 1978 issue
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We can't be phased out!
FEROL AUSTEN
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Career switches can be useful
GERTRUDE P. FOGEL
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What is a work ethic?
JACOB ROBERT MOON, JR.
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Promise and fulfillment
SADJA TAYLOR
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One race
Jennifer J. Brown
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Incredible good
HUBERTA F. RANDALL
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Are we blaming or healing?
ALISTAIR W. LAUDER
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Standpoint
Francis Fanshawe Algie
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Looking for a job?
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Successful job interviews
Nathan A. Talbot
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Carrie and the summer visitor
Sylvia G. Cline
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A number of years ago I was involved in the initial stages of...
Robert L. Guffin, Jr. with contributions from Virginia T. Guffin
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I once heard a Christian Science lecturer say that if we're not...
Margaret A. Herberts
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I was raised in Christian Science, attended the Sunday School...
Helen L. McLaughlin
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Christian Science has been my guide, my protector, and my...
Viola Hill Malcolm
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Swimming is one of my favorite things to do
Brian Bender with contributions from Carol Bender