A Historical Introduction To Ethics
Publisher: American Book Co.
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preliminary Notions i; title: PART I. THE ETHICS OF CONDITIONATE MORALITY; title: CHAPTER; title: I. Epicurus 11; title: II. The Revival of Utilitarianism 16; title: III. Altruism as Exemplified by Bentham and Mill 22; title: IV. Utilitarianism and Evolution 32; title: V. The Ethics of Nature and Custom 40; title: PART II. THE ETHICS OF ABSOLUTE MORALITY; title: Introduction 45; title: I. The Ethics of the Moral Sense 47; title: II. The Ethics of Sympathy 55; title: III. The Stoic Ethics of Instinct 60; title: IV. The Ethics of Intuition 66; title: V. The Ethics of Reason: The Autonomous Ethics of Kant 72; title: VI. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. Socrates 82; title: VII. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. Plato 89; title: VIII. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. Aristotle 96; title: IX. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. St. Thomas Aquinas 105; title: PART III. CRITICISM OF MORAL SYSTEMS; title: CHAPTER PAGE; title: I. General Criticism 121; title: II. Criticism of the Systems of Conditionate Morality 130; title: III. Criticism of the Systems of Absolute Morality 140; title: Conclusion. The Ethical Ideal 147