A Historical Introduction To Ethics | Moore, Thomas Verner, 1877-1969
A Historical Introduction To Ethics
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Author: Moore, Thomas Verner, 1877-1969
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Added Date: 2016-08-30
Publication Date: 1915
Language: eng
Subjects: Ethics
Publishers: New York, American Book Co
Collections: folkscanomy miscellaneous, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 184
PPI Count: 600
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 163.43 MB
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Year: 1915
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
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CONTENTS Preliminary Notions i PART I. THE ETHICS OF CONDITIONATE MORALITY CHAPTER I. Epicurus 11 II. The Revival of Utilitarianism 16 III. Altruism as Exemplified by Bentham and Mill 22 IV. Utilitarianism and Evolution 32 V. The Ethics of Nature and Custom 40 PART II. THE ETHICS OF ABSOLUTE MORALITY Introduction 45 I. The Ethics of the Moral Sense 47 II. The Ethics of Sympathy 55 III. The Stoic Ethics of Instinct 60 IV. The Ethics of Intuition 66 V. The Ethics of Reason: The Autonomous Ethics of Kant 72 VI. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. Socrates 82 VII. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. Plato 89 VIII. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. Aristotle 96 IX. The Ethics of Reason: Functional Ethics. St. Thomas Aquinas 105 PART III. CRITICISM OF MORAL SYSTEMS CHAPTER PAGE I. General Criticism 121 II. Criticism of the Systems of Conditionate Morality 130 III. Criticism of the Systems of Absolute Morality 140 Conclusion. The Ethical Ideal 147 Digitized by Google.
"The present work ... was commenced as a series of lectures to the Newman Club at the University of California. These were delivered during the fall and winter of 1908. They were afterwards considerably modified, and constituted a part of the course in the Introduction to Philosophy given by the author at the Catholic University of America."--Pref
"Some works on the history of ethics": p. 10
Contains "References"
"The present work ... was commenced as a series of lectures to the Newman Club at the University of California. These were delivered during the fall and winter of 1908. They were afterwards considerably modified, and constituted a part of the course in the Introduction to Philosophy given by the author at the Catholic University of America."--Pref
"Some works on the history of ethics": p. 10
Contains "References"