| Description |
425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"First edition." |
| Contents |
The Pageant of Morals -- I. The Ancient World -- II. The Christian Epic -- III. From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- IV. From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment -- V. The Rediscovery of the Inner Life -- VI. The Return to Uility -- VII. Personal Liberty -- VIII. The Morals of Practicality -- Part One: The Dawn of Morals -- I. The School of Athens -- II. The Pioneers -- III. The Heroic Age -- IV. From Mythology to Philosophy -- Part Two: The Greek Schools -- I. Socrates and the Sophists (469-399 B.C.) -- The Socratic Quest -- Socrates: His Trial and Death -- II. Plato (427-346 B.C.) -- The City of the Perfect -- An Experiment in Eugenics -- The Republic: Its Rivals -- III. Aristotle (385-322 B.C.) -- Goodness and Happiness -- The Golden Mean -- Part Three: Asiatic Systems -- I. Buddhism -- The Way of the Buddha -- Meditation -- Karma -- The Path to Nirvana -- II. Confucianism -- The Filial Relations -- The Superior Man -- Part Four: Stoics and Epicureans -- I. Stoicism -- The School of Discipline -- The Guide of Life -- The Art of Living -- The Difficulties of the Doctrine -- The Supreme Problems -- II. Epicureanism -- The School of Deliverance -- Mental Hygiene -- Part Five: Ecclesiastical Morals -- I. St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.) -- The City of God -- Original Sin -- II. St. Thomas Auinas (1227-1274) -- Mediaeval Morals -- Orthodoxy and Intolerance -- Part Six: The Renaissance -- I. Niccolo Machiavelli ( 1469-1527) -- Politics without Ethics -- Morals Without Scruples -- II. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) -- The Passionate Pilgrim -- The Way to Perfection -- Part Seven: The Enlightenment -- I. Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) -- Moral Resignation -- Mystical Morals -- II. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Morals and the State -- Morality and Monarchy -- Part Eight: Morals of Revolt -- I. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- The Fighting Philosopher -- The Moralist in Action -- Contradictions in Character -- II. Rousseau (1712-1788) -- Sentimental Morality -- The Card-House of Optimism -- III. David Hume (1711-1776) -- Kipptical Morality -- The Challenge -- Part Nine: Idealism -- I. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Universal Morality -- Self-Rule -- II. Romanticism -- Personal Idealism -- Romantic Morals -- III. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- Pessimistic Morality -- The Reversal of Romanticism -- VI. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Beyond Good and Evil -- The Superman -- Part Ten: Modern Schools -- I. Utilitarianism -- The Greatest Happiness Principle -- Personal Liberty -- II. Evolutionary Ethics -- The ascent of Man -- The Struggle of Systems -- III. William James (1842-1910): Pragmatism -- The Morals of Practivality -- Persistent Problems |
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Ethics -- History.
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Ethics. |
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History. |
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Morale -- Histoire. |
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