Introduction To The Study Of Ethics (Paperback)

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ETHICS - 1891 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I - THE STANDARD OF MORALS. l. Analysis of hloral Ideas ., . 2. Good and Evil, . 3. Universal l7elfare as the Standard of hlorals . CHAPTER 11. THE S TANDAR O D F h o R A - C o i i n m . I. The Method of Determining Right Action . 2. Further Elucidations . 3. The Worth of Life CHAPTER 111. TIIE RIGHT AIM OF LIFE. I. Examination of Egoism General LawIof the Will . 2. Analysis of Egoism Duty and Self-Interest . . . 3. The Consciousness of Doing Right as the Final hlornl Aim CHAPTER IV. DUTY., I. The Conception of Right. Feeling and Reason . 2. Ought-Duty-Rloral Law . CHAPTER V. VIRTUE. I. Virtue . 2. IIow to Judge a Moral Act . CHAPTER VI. THE LAW OF CAUSE ASD EFFECI. I. The Uniformity of the Acts of the Will . 2. Uniformity and Freedom . 3. Uniformity and Choice . . 4. Uniformity and Social I ltercourse . 5 . Uniformity and Qualities of Character . 6. Uniformity and Education . . . PAGE i 6 13 v i Contents. -- 7. Uniformity and Self-Culture . 8. Uniformity and Commandment . CHAPTER VII. R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y . I . Itnputability and Responsibility . 2. Pain and Conscience . 3. Rlame . 4. Punishment . 5. Desert and Guilt . 6. The Consciousness of the a w o f use and Effect CHAPTER VIII. ETHICS AND THEOLOGY. I . The IVill of God as the Foundation of Morals . 2. Imnlortality as the Foundation of hllorals . 3. Ones Own Death . 4. The Death of Friends . j. Death as a hioral Friend . 6. The Vorship and Love of God as the Basis of hlorality . 7. Theology and Responsibility . CHAPTER I. ETHICS AND THEOLOGY- Conii zzied. I. Christianity in the Present Age . 2. Theological Unbelief . 3. The Church ant1 Ethical Society . 4Heaven and Earth 5 . Frayer . . 6. The Anchor of the Soul . 7. Theology and Love for Mankind . S. Theology and Sincerity . g. Theology and the Standard of Moral Worth . 10. Moral Progress . I r . The People and the Creeds . 12. Retrospect . . CHAPTER X. NATURE A ND MORALITY. I. Living according to Nature . 2. Analysis of the Conception of an End in Nature . 3. The Purpose of the Universe and our Moral Will . 4. The Universal Aim of Nature as the Basis of IVIorals . 5 . Living according to Human Nature . b. Nature and lllorality, 7 . Man and the Universe . 8. Mans hIoral lndepentlence . g. Conclusion . PAGE I 68 170 INTRODUCTION. ETHICA P L H ILOSOPIIhYas both a scientific and a practical aim. Its scientific task is to furnish a man with a clear consciousness of his moral life, and to give him a deeper understanding of this most significant side of reality, so that he may grasp its ultimate principles. Its practical task is to answer that most personal and earnest question How am I to act How ought I to conduct my life Thus as the great art of a good and wise life it becomes the most important of all teachings. It is - a science for all inasmuch as eve y one is in need of enlightenment and guidance. Human conduct has not waited for science to lead it Custom and law try to order the doing and the leaving undone of the members of society. Custom comprehends the rules which are impressed by praise and blame, self-approval and selfdisapproval law includes civic codes, that is, the precepts which the state enforces by physical 6 . . v111 Introduction. ---coercion or the infliction of external punishment...