Principles and practice of morality, or, Ethical principles discussed and applied / By Ezekiel Gilman Robinson

Author: Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman, 1815-1894
Published: Boston : Silver, Rogers & Co., [1888]
Copyright Date: [©1888]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)

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Preliminary : Definition, sources, relations -- Part 1 : Essential principles of ethics. Principles ascertained -- Distribution of materials -- Part 2 : Theoretic morality. Division 1 : The moral faculty or conscience. Meanings of the terms moral faculty and conscience -- Origin of the conscience -- Conscience and the moral consciousness -- The moral taste and conscience -- Conclusions respecting conscience as a faculty -- The function of conscience -- The actual judgments of conscience -- Division 2 : Moral law. Place and significance of moral law in ethics -- Idea and definition of moral law -- Various kinds of laws -- Origin of moral law -- Tests of moral laws -- Design of moral law -- The sanctions of moral law -- Perpetuity of moral law -- The feeling of obligation -- Division 3 : The will. Connection of will with other ethical factors -- What is the will? -- Relation of will to the other powers -- Conditions under which will acts -- Freedom of the will -- Determinism -- Division 4 : Virtue and theories of virtue. Morality, virtue, and righteousness -- Theories of virtue -- The ultimate ground of obligation -- Part 3 : Practical morality. Preliminary -- Duties to God. Recognition of God in nature -- Religious observances -- Working together with God -- Duties to one's self. Reality of duties to self -- Duties to self always and everywhere -- Duties to self in social and civil relations -- Duties in special circumstances -- Duties to fellow-beings. Duties to fellow-beings simply as fellow-beings -- Duties in the family -- Mutual duties in the dependencies of society -- Duties to the state.

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This book has been made for a service which no one of its predecessors could be persuaded to render. It embodies the lectures its author has given to his classes in Ethics, and is, what it purports to be, distinctively a text-book. It touches existing controversies only so far as is necessary for the elucidation or defence of its own positions. The aim has been to condense rather than to expand its discussions, and to diminish rather than to multiply its pages. - Preface.

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