History As Past Ethics

About this eBook

Author

Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937

Title

History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals

Original Publication

Boston: Ginn & Co., 1913.

Credits

WebRover, Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Ethics -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 73430

Release Date

April 19, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HISTORY AS PAST ETHICS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.HISTORY AS PAST ETHICS
5. 5.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
6. 6.CHAPTER II THE DAWN OF MORALITY: CONSCIENCE IN THE KINSHIP GROUP — I. Institutions, Ideas, and Conditions of Life determining the Rules of Conduct — II. Essential Facts of Kinship or Intratribal Morality — III. The Beginnings of Intertribal Morality
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE MORAL LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT: AN IDEAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE — I. Circumstances and Ideas which molded and motived Morality — II. The Ideal
8. 8.CHAPTER IV THE BABYLONIAN-ASSYRIAN CONSCIENCE
9. 9.CHAPTER V CHINESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF FILIAL PIETY — I. Ideas, Institutions, and Historical Circumstances determining the Cast of the Moral Ideal — II. The Ideal — III. Effects of the Ideal upon Chinese Life and History
10. 10.CHAPTER VI JAPANESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF LOYALTY — I. Formative and Modifying Influences — II. The Ideal — III. Some Significant Facts in the Moral History of Japan
11. 11.CHAPTER VII THE ETHICAL IDEALS OF INDIA — PART I. THE ETHICS OF BRAHMANISM—A CLASS MORALITY — I. Historical and Speculative Basis of the System — II. The Various Moral Standards — PART II. THE ETHICS OF BUDDHISM; AN IDEAL OF SELF-CONQUEST AND UNIVERSAL BENEVOLENCE — I. The Philosophical Basis of the System — II. The Ideal — III. Some Expressions of the Ethical Spirit of Buddhism
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII THE ETHICS OF ZOROASTRIANISM: AN IDEAL OF COMBAT — I. Philosophical and Religious Ideas which created the Ethical Type — II. The Ideal — III. The Practice
13. 13.CHAPTER IX THE MORAL EVOLUTION IN ISRAEL: AN IDEAL OF OBEDIENCE TO A REVEALED LAW — I. The Religious Basis of Hebrew Morality — II. The Evolution of the Moral Ideal — 1. The Development up to the Exile — 2. The Morality of the Prophets of the Exile — 3. The Moral Life in the Postexilic Age
14. 14.CHAPTER X THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HELLAS: AN IDEAL OF SELF-REALIZATION — I. Institutions and Ideas determining the Moral Type — II. The Ideal — III. Limitations and Defects of the Ideal — IV. The Moral Evolution
15. 15.CHAPTER XI ROMAN MORALS: AN IDEAL OF CIVIC DUTY — I. Institutions and Conditions of Life Determining the Early Moral Type — II. The Primitive Moral Type — III. The Moral Evolution under the Republic — IV. The Moral Evolution under the Pagan Empire
16. 16.CHAPTER XII THE ETHICS OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY: AN IDEAL OF RIGHT BELIEF — I. Religious Ideas and Theological Dogmas molding the Ideal — II. The Moral Ideal
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII MORAL HISTORY OF THE AGE OF CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM — I. Conceptions of Life and Historical Circumstances that produced the Ascetic Ideal — II. The Ideal and its Chief Types — III. The Chief Moral Facts of the Period
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV THE ETHICS OF ISLAM: A MARTIAL IDEAL — I. Religious Basis of the Moral System — II. The Moral Code — III. The Moral Life
19. 19.CHAPTER XV THE MORAL LIFE OF EUROPE DURING THE AGE OF CHIVALRY — I. The Church consecrates the Martial Ideal of Knighthood — II. The Composite Ideal of Knighthood — III. The Chief Moral Phenomena of the Period
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI RENAISSANCE ETHICS: REVIVAL OF NATURALISM IN MORALS — I. Determining Influences — II. Some Essential Facts in the Moral History of the Age
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII ETHICS OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION — I. Principles of the Reformation of Ethical Import — II. Some Important Moral Outcomes of the Sixteenth-Century Religious Reform
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII THE MORAL EVOLUTION SINCE THE INCOMING OF DEMOCRACY: THE NEW SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONSCIENCE — I. Forces determining the Trend of the Ethical Movement — II. Expressions of the New Moral Consciousness in Different Domains of Life and Thought — 1. The Ethics of Democracy — 2. The Ethics of Industrialism — 3. The Ethics of Modern Science — 4. The Ethics of Theology — 5. Social Ethics: the New Social Conscience — 6. International Ethics: the New International Conscience — FOOTNOTES
23. 23.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes

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