Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics
by William Thomas Thornton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Thornton, William Thomas, 1813-1880
- Title
- Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion
- Subject
- Metaphysics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 29917
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29917
- Release Date
- September 6, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.OLD-FASHIONED ETHICS — AND — COMMON-SENSE METAPHYSICS — WITH SOME OF THEIR APPLICATIONS — BY
- 2.WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON — AUTHOR OF A TREATISE 'ON LABOUR'
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.OLD-FASHIONED ETHICS AND COMMON-SENSE METAPHYSICS
- 6.CHAPTER I. — ANTI-UTILITARIANISM. — I. — II.
- 7.CHAPTER II. — HISTORY'S SCIENTIFIC PRETENSIONS .
- 8.CHAPTER III. — DAVID HUME AS A METAPHYSICIAN.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. — HUXLEYISM.
- 10.CHAPTER V. — RECENT PHASES OF SCIENTIFIC ATHEISM. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. — LIMITS OF DEMONSTRABLE THEISM.
- 12.EPILOGUE. — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.BY THE SAME AUTHOR. — ON LABOUR: — ITS WRONGFUL CLAIMS AND RIGHTFUL DUES; ITS ACTUAL PRESENT AND POSSIBLE FUTURE. — SECOND EDITION.
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