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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Paulsen, Friedrich, 1846-1908. System of ethics. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1899 (OCoLC)644445480 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Friedrich Paulsen; Frank Thilly |
| OCLC Number: | 299617 |
| Description: | xviii, 723 p. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : nature and function of ethics -- The conception of life and moral philosophy among the Greeks -- The Christian conception of life -- The conversion of the old world to Christianity -- The Middle Ages and their conception of life -- The modern conception of life -- Mediaeval and modern moral philosophy -- Good and bad : teleological and formalistic conceptions -- The highest good : hedonistic and energistic conceptions -- Pessimism -- The evil, the bad, and theodicy -- Duty and conscience -- Egoism and altruism -- Virtue and happiness -- Relation of morality to religion -- The freedom of the will -- Virtues and vices in general -- The education of the will and the discipline of the feelings, or self-control -- Bodily life -- Economic life -- Spiritual life and culture -- Honor and the love of honor -- Suicide -- Compassion and benevolence -- Justice -- Love of neighbor -- Veracity. |
| Responsibility: | by Friedrich Paulsen ... ed. and tr. with the author's sanction, from the 4th rev. and enl. ed., by Frank Thilly. |
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