A preface to morals

About this eBook

Author

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974

Original Publication

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.

Credits

Sean/IB@DP

Language

English

LoC Class

BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion

Subject

Ethics

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77019

Release Date

October 9, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.A PREFACE TO MORALS
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PART I THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ANCESTRAL ORDER
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF UNBELIEF — 1. Whirl is King — 2. False Prophecies — 3. Sorties and Retreats — 4. Deep Dissolution
7. 7.CHAPTER II GOD IN THE MODERN WORLD — 1. Imago Dei — 2. An Indefinite God — 3. God in More Senses Than One — 4. The Protest of the Fundamentalists — 5. In Man’s Image
8. 8.CHAPTER III THE LOSS OF CERTAINTY — 1. Ways of Reading the Bible — 2. Modernism: Immortality as an Example — 3. What Modernism Leaves Out
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE ACIDS OF MODERNITY — 1. The Kingly Pattern — 2. Landmarks — 3. Barren Ground — 4. Sophisticated Violence — 5. Rulers
10. 10.CHAPTER V THE BREAKDOWN OF AUTHORITY — 1. God’s Government — 2. The Doctrine of the Keys — 3. The Logic of Toleration — 4. A Working Compromise — 5. The Effect of Patriotism — 6. The Dissolution of a Sovereignty
11. 11.CHAPTER VI LOST PROVINCES — 1. Business — 2. The Family — 3. Art
12. 12.CHAPTER VII THE DRAMA OF DESTINY — 1. The Soul in the Modern World — 2. The Great Scenario — 3. Earmarks of Truth — 4. On Reconciling Religion and Science — 5. Gospels of Science — 6. The Deeper Conflict — 7. Theocracy and Humanism
13. 13.PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANISM
14. 14.INTRODUCTION
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII GOLDEN MEMORIES
16. 16.CHAPTER IX THE INSIGHT OF HUMANISM — 1. The Two Approaches to Life — 2. Freedom and Restraint — 3. The Ascetic Principle — 4. Oscillation between Two Principles — 5. The Golden Mean and Its Difficulties — 6. The Matrix of Humanism — 7. The Career of the Soul — 8. The Passage into Maturity — 9. The Function of High Religion
17. 17.CHAPTER X HIGH RELIGION AND THE MODERN WORLD — 1. Popular Religion and the Great Teachers — 2. The Aristocratic Principle — 3. The Peculiarity of the Modern Situation — 4. The Stone Which the Builders Rejected
18. 18.PART III THE GENIUS OF MODERNITY
19. 19.CHAPTER XI THE CURE OF SOULS — 1. The Problem of Evil — 2. Superstition and Self-Consciousness — 3. Virtue — 4. From Clue to Practice
20. 20.CHAPTER XII THE BUSINESS OF THE GREAT SOCIETY — 1. The Invention of Invention — 2. The Creative Principle in Modernity — 3. Naive Capitalism — 4. The Credo of Old-Style Business — 5. Old-Style Reform and Revolution — 6. The Diffusion of the Acquisitive Instinct — 7. Ideals
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII GOVERNMENT IN THE GREAT SOCIETY — 1. Loyalty — 2. The Evolution of Loyalty — 3. Pluralism — 4. Live and Let Live — 5. Government in the People — 6. Politicians and Statesmen
22. 22.CHAPTER XIV LOVE IN THE GREAT SOCIETY — 1. The External Control of Sexual Conduct — 2. Birth Control — 3. The Logic of Birth Control — 4. The Use of Convention — 5. The New Hedonism — 6. Marriage and Affinity — 7. The Schooling of Desire
23. 23.CHAPTER XV THE MORALIST IN AN UNBELIEVING WORLD — 1. The Declaration of Ideals — 2. The Choice of a Way — 3. The Religion of the Spirit
24. 24.APPENDIX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
25. 25.NOTES
26. 26.INDEX

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