The law of love and love as a law, or Christian ethics
By: With an appendix, containing strictures by Dr. McCosh, with replies
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong, and co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Love; Religious aspects; Christianity; Christian ethics
Other titles: Christian ethics
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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Different theories; title: Moral science; title: Part I: The law of love: theoretical morals; title: Division I: Of law; title: 1. Of law in general; title: 2. Obligation: Moral ideas: Conditions and characteristics; title: 3. Obligation: Freedom a condition; title: 4. Obligation: an end a condition; title: 5. Obligation: a good as a condition; title: 6. Obligation: Two forms of spontaneous action; title: 7. Obligation: Personality a condition; title: 8. Obligation: Necessarily affirmed; title: 9. Obligation; Paley: Obligation and authority; title: 10. Ultimate moral ideas: Whewell: Theory of right; title: 11. Is the affirmation of obligation law?; title: 12. Conscience; title: Division II: Of love; title: 1. Rational love: its characteristics and sphere; title: 2. Complacent love and righteous indignation; title: Division III: The law of love; title: 1. How love becomes law; title: 2. The relation of love to other duties; title: 3. Reconciliation of systems; title: 4. Other relations of the sensibility to the moral nature; title: Part II: Love as a law: practical moral s; title: 1. Love as a law distinguished from the law of love; title: 2. Classification of duties; title: Class I: Duties to ourselves; title: I. The securing of our rights; title: II. The supply of our wants; title: III. The perfecting of our powers; title: 1. Perfection as related to direct action for others: of the body of the mind; title: 2. Perfection as related to unconscious influence; title: 3. Perfection as related to complacency; title: 4. Perfection as related to the glory of God; title: 5. Perfection as related to self-love; title: 6. Habits; title: Class II. Duties to our fellow men; title: Duties to men as men; title: I. Duties regarding the rights of others; title: 1. Of rights; title: 2. Personal rights: Life and liberty; title: 3. Right to property; title: 4. Right to reputation; title: 5. Right to truth; title: II. Duties regarding the wants of others; title: 1. Justice and benevolence; title: 2. Supply of the wants of others; title: III. Perfecting and directing the powers of others; title: 1. Duty of influence from the relation of character to well-being; title: obstacles to change of intellectual state and character; title: 2. Spheres of effort: who may labor in them; title: Duties from special relations; title: 1. Rights of persons: right and rights: special duties: the family; title: 2. Government: Responsibility: punishment; title: 3. Relation of the sexes: chastity; title: 4. Rights and duties in relation to marriage; title: 5. The law of divorce; title: 6. Rights and duties of parents and children; title: 7. Society and government: the sphere of government: origin of government: mode of formation; title: 8. Government representative and instrumental: the right of suffrage; title: 9. Forms of government: duties of magistrates and citizens; title: III. Duties to God; title: 1. Duties to God defined; title: 2. Cultivation of a devotional spirit; title: 3. Prayer; title: 4. The Sabbath.