| Description |
xiv,326 pages ; 22cm. |
| Series |
Essays index reprint series
|
|
Essay index reprint series.
|
| Note |
Reprint of the 1924 ed. |
|
"The essays ... began appearing in 'Critica' in 1915 as 'Fragments of ethics'." |
| Contents |
Types of failure -- Sins of thought -- Attachment to things 00 Religion and peace of mind -- Our dead -- Sex -- Forgiving and forgetting -- On telling the truth -- Predisposition to evil -- Nefarious professions -- Gratitude and merit -- "Heart" and "reason" -- Compassion and justice -- Toil and pain -- Imagination and the escape from reality -- Beyond life -- The joy of evil -- Virtue and compromise -- Faith and abstention from thought -- Humility -- A word for imperfection -- The individual, grace and providence -- Providence -- Responsibility -- Hope and fear -- Objects of worship -- Perfection and imperfection -- Innocence and knowledge -- The value of example -- The house divided against itself -- Specialisation and intolerance -- Indifference to public affairs -- Political honesty -- Disgust for politics -- The cravenness of states -- The state as an ethical institution -- Rational and irrational institutions -- Social programmes and practical reality -- Intellectuality and "Intellectuals" -- The non-philosopher -- The impenetrability of consciousness -- Beatitude and yearning for repose -- The religious spirit |
| Subject |
Life.
|
|
Life. |
|
Conduct of life.
|
|
Conduct of life. |
|
