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Methods of Ethics

Henry Sidgwick

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This text was scanned in from the 1907 (seventh) edition published by Macmillan and Company, London.

Table of Contents

Prefaces

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II

ETHICS AND POLITICS

CHAPTER III

ETHICAL JUDGMENTS

CHAPTER IV

PLEASURE AND DESIRE

CHAPTER V

FREE WILL

CHAPTER VI

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND METHODS

CHAPTER VII

EGOISM AND SELF-LOVE

CHAPTER VIII

INTUITIONISM

CHAPTER IX

GOOD

BOOK II

EGOISM

CHAPTER I

THE PRINCIPLE AND METHOD OF EGOISM

CHAPTER II

EMPIRICAL HEDONISM

CHAPTER III

EMPIRICAL HEDONISM (continued)

CHAPTER IV

OBJECTIVE HEDONISM AND COMMON SENSE

CHAPTER V

HAPPINESS AND DUTY

CHAPTER VI

DEDUCTIVE HEDONISM

BOOK III

INTUITIONISM

CHAPTER I

INTUITIONISM

CHAPTER II

VIRTUE AND DUTY

CHAPTER III

THE INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES

CHAPTER IV

BENEVOLENCE

CHAPTER V

JUSTICE

CHAPTER VI

LAWS AND PROMISES

CHAPTER VII

CLASSIFICATION OF DUTIES. TRUTH

CHAPTER VIII

OTHER SOCIAL DUTIES AND VIRTUES

CHAPTER IX

SELF-REGARDING VIRTUES

CHAPTER X

COURAGE, HUMILITY, ETC.

CHAPTER XI

REVIEW OF THE MORALITY OF COMMON SENSE

CHAPTER XII

MOTIVES OR SPRINGS OF ACTION AS SUBJECTS OF MORAL JUDGMENT

CHAPTER XIII

PHILOSOPHICAL INTUITIONISM

CHAPTER XIV

ULTIMATE GOOD

BOOK IV

CHAPTER I

THE MEANING OF UTILITARIANISM

CHAPTER II

THE PROOF OF UTILITARIANISM

CHAPTER III

THE RELATION OF UTILITARIANISM TO THE MORALITY OF COMMON SENSE

CHAPTER IV

THE METHOD OF UTILITARIANISM

CHAPTER V

THE METHOD OF UTILITARIANISM (continued)

CONCLUDING CHAPTER

THE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THE THREE METHODS

APPENDIX on Kant's Conception of Free Will


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