A Review Of The Systems Of Ethics Founded On The Theory Of Evolution

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Author

Williams, Cora May

Title

A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution

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Produced by Charlene Taylor, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Ethics, Evolutionary

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eBook-No.

39155

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39155

Release Date

March 15, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A REVIEW OF THE SYSTEMS OF ETHICS FOUNDED ON THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION — BY
2. 2.C. M. WILLIAMS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.A REVIEW OF EVOLUTIONAL ETHICS — Part I
6. 6.INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
7. 7.CHARLES DARWIN — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.ERNST HAECKEL — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.HERBERT SPENCER — General Considerations — The Physical View — The Biological View — The Psychological View — The Sociological View — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.JOHN FISKE — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.W. H. ROLPH — " Biological Problems " ("Biologische Probleme," 1884) — The Problem of Food-taking — The Problem of Perfectibility — Animal or Natural Ethics — Humane Ethics — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.ALFRED BARRATT — Definitions — Proposition I — Proposition II — Proposition III — Proposition IV — Proposition V — The Origin of the Moral Sense — Of the Social Relation of the Individual — The Unselfish Emotions — Of the Relation of Man To Nature — Of the Will — Of Obligation — Of Pleasures that are called Bad — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.LESLIE STEPHEN — " The Science of Ethics " (1882)
15. 15.B. CARNERI — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.HARALD HÖFFDING — " Ethics " ("Ethik," 1887) — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.GEORG VON GIZYCKI — " Moral Philosophy " ("Moralphilosophie," 1889) — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.S. ALEXANDER — " Moral Order and Progress " (1889) — Statical Analysis—Moral Order — Dynamical Analysis—Moral Growth and Progress — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.APPENDIX TO PART I — PAUL REE — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.A REVIEW OF EVOLUTIONAL ETHICS — PART II
21. 21.INTRODUCTION — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER I — THE CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER II — INTELLIGENCE AND "END" — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.CHAPTER III — THE WILL — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.CHAPTER IV — THE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THOUGHT, FEELING, AND WILL IN EVOLUTION — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.CHAPTER V — EGOISM AND ALTRUISM IN EVOLUTION — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.CHAPTER VI. — CONSCIENCE — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.CHAPTER VII — THE MORAL PROGRESS OF THE RACE AS SHOWN BY HISTORY — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.CHAPTER VIII — THE RESULTS OF ETHICAL INQUIRY ON AN EVOLUTIONAL BASIS — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.CHAPTER IX — THE IDEAL AND THE WAY OF ITS ATTAINMENT — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.Works on Philosophy — PUBLISHED BY — MACMILLAN & CO.

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