A study of ethical principles / by James Seth.

  • James Seth
Date:
1899
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    CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE ETHICAL PROBLEM. PAGE 1. Preliminary definition of ethics. What is morality ? What is conduct ? Conduct and character .... 3 2. In what sense is ethics practical ? Relations of moral theory and practice ^ 3. Relations of moral faith and ethical insight. Imnossibility of absolute moral scepticism ..... 9 4. Business of ethics to define the good or the moral ideal, by scrutiny of the various interpretations of it . . • H 5. Ancient and modern conceptions of the moral ideal compared. (a) Duty and the chief good ; their logical connection. Per- sonality as moral ideal . . . • • .14 6. (6) Ancient ideal political, modern individualistic ; the inade- quacy of each, and their reconciliation in personality . U 7. Various aspects of the ethical problem : (a) tlie good; (&) the right; (c) moral law ; (d) conscience ; (e) virtue ; (/) duty ; (g) pleasure'; (h) altruism ; (i) self-sacrifice . . . 1? CHAPTER II. THE METHOD OF ETHICS. 1. Natural and normative sciences. Ethics a science of the latter type 2^ 2. Its method scientific, not metaphysical . . • .31 3. Two misunderstandings of the term ' normative science' . 35
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