Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall.

  • William McDougall
Date:
1924
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Credit: Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    World Problems LECTURE I The Two Systems of Ethics, the Universal and the National In this short series of lectures, I propose to invite your attention to certain ethical and political problems which are already confronting the modern world and which promise to become very rapidly more urgent. They are problems which will have to be met by political action on the widest scale in the near future, political action which, if it is to be carried through suc¬ cessfully and confidently for the settlement of the problems I speak of, must conform to principles recognized as right or ethical. Yet they are problems in the face of which the ethical princi¬ ples commonly accepted by civilized mankind give us no sure guidance. This is true, not only
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