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1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original copyright -- TRANSLATORS' PREFACE -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Ethics as Science of Norms -- 2. The Methods of Ethics -- 3. The Problems of Ethics -- Part I. The facts of the Moral Life -- CHAPTER I. Language and Ethical Ideas. -- 1. The General idea of Morality -- (a) History of the Words 'ethisch,' 'moralisch,' 'sittlich' -- (b) 'Good' and 'Bad' -- 2. The Development of Special Moral Ideas -- (a) The Separation of Ethical Ideas from their Substrate -- (b) The Deepening of Moral Conceptions |
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(C) The Universal Validity of Moral Ideas -- CHAPTER II. Religion and Morality. -- 1. Myth and Religion -- (a) Religion -- (b) The Religious Constituents of the Myth -- (c) The Relation of the Religious to the Ethical Elements in the Myth -- (d) The Immoral Elements in the Myth -- (e) The Psychological Development of the Myth -- 2. The Gods as Moral Ideals -- (a) The Worship of Ancestors -- (b) The Anthropomorphic Nature-Myth -- (c) Hero Worship -- (d) The Ideal of the Ethical Religions -- 3. Religion and the Moral Order of the Universe -- (a) Ideas of the Life after Death |
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(B) The Development of the Ideas of Reward and Punishment in the Nature-Religions -- (c) The Influence of Philosophy on the Ideas of Reward and Punishment -- (d) The Idea of the Moral Order of the Universe -- (e) The Moral Laws as Religious Commands -- CHAPTER III.Custom and the Moral Life. -- 1. The Universal Characteristics of Custom -- (a) Instinct and Custom -- (b) The Religious Origin of Custom -- (c) The Changes of Purpose in Custom -- (d) The Relation of Custom to Law and Morality -- (e) The Relation of Custom to Habit and Usage -- ( f ) The Systematisation of Custom |
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2. The Individual Forms of Life -- (a) Food -- (b) The Dwelling -- (c) Clothing -- (d) Work -- 3. The Forms of Intercourse -- (a) The Labour Contract -- (b) Play -- (c) Polite Manners: Personal Deportment -- (d) The Forms of Social Intercourse: Salutation -- (e) The Ethical Significance of the Forms of Social Intercourse -- 4. The Forms of Society -- (a) The Family and the Tribal Union -- (b) Mother-right and Father-right -- (c) The Moral Aspect of Family Life -- (d) The Development of the Feelings of Sympathy and of Filial Affection -- (e) The State and the Tribal Union |
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(F) The Development of the Forms of the State -- (g) The Feeling of Community in Nation and State -- (h) The Origination of the Legal System -- (i) The Punitive Power of the State -- (k) The Origination of New Departments of Law -- (l) The Ethical Significance of the Legal System -- 5. The Humanistic Forms of life -- (a) The General Development of the Humanistic Feelings -- (b) Friendship -- (c) Hospitality -- (d) Charity -- CHAPTER IV. The Conditions of Moral Evolutionin Savagery and Civilisation. -- 1. Man and Nature -- (a) The Natural Conditions of Life |
| Summary |
Originally published in 1908, the text upon which this translation is based is that of the first 269 pages of Professor Wundt's Ethik, as published in revised form in 1892. It has been the author's object in the work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life, including chapters on language and ethical ideas, religion and morality, and custom and the moral life |
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"First published in 1897 Facsimile Publisher." |
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Translated from the German |
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Introduction. 1. Language and Ethical Ideas. 2. Religion and Morality. 3. Custom and the Moral Life. 4. The Conditions of Moral Evolution in Savagery and Civilisation |
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Wilhelm Max Wundt (Author) |
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY / General
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Ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000696905 |
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1000696901 |
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9781000693829 |
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1000693821 |
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9781000695366 |
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1000695360 |
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9780429284915 |
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0429284918 |
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