THE ACCEPTED CONTENT OF MORALS
Chapter I. Is there an accepted
content? 1. The Point in Dispute. 2.
What Constitutes Substantial Agreement? 3. Dogmatic
Assumption.
Chapter ii. The codes of
communities 4. The Codes of Communities:
Justice. 5. The Codes of Communities: Veracity.
6. The Codes of Communities: the Common Good.
Chapter iii. The codes of
the moralists 7. The Moralists. 8.
Epicurean and Stoic. 9. Plato; Aristotle; the
Church. 10. Later Lists of the Virtues. 11.
The Stretching of Moral Concepts. 12. The Reflective
Mind and the Moral Codes.
ETHICS AS SCIENCE
Chapter iv. The Awakening
to reflection 13. The Dogmatism of
the Natural Man. 14. The Awakening.
Chapter V. Ethical method 15.
Inductive and Deductive Method. 16 The Authority of
the “Given.”
Chapter vi. The materials
of ethics 17. How the Moralist should
Proceed. 18. The Philosopher as Moralist.
Chapter vii. The aim of
ethics as science 19. The Appeal
to Reason. 20. The Appeal to Reason Justified.
MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
Chapter viii. Man’s nature
21. The Background of Actions. 22. Man’s
Nature. 23. How Discover Man’s Nature?
Chapter ix. Man’s material
environment 24. The Struggle with Nature.
25. The Conquests of the Mind. 26. The Conquest
of Nature and the Well-being of Man.
Chapter X. Man’s social environment
27. Man is Assigned his Place. 28. Varieties
of the Social Order. 29. Social Organization.
30. Social Order and Human Will.
THE REALM OF ENDS
Chapter xi. Impulse, desire,
and will 31. Impulse. 32. Desire.
33. Desire of the Unattainable. 34. Will.
35. Desire and Will not Identical. 36. The
Will and Deferred Action.
Chapter xii. The permanent
will 37. Consciously Chosen Ends. 38.
Ends not Consciously Chosen. 39. The Choice of
Ideals.
Chapter xiii. The object
in desire and will 40. The
Object as End to be Realized. 41. Human Nature
and the Objects Chosen. 42. The Instincts and
Impulses of Man. 43. The Study of Man’s
Instincts Important. 44. The Bewildering Multiplicity
of the Objects of Desire, and the Effort
to Find an Underlying Unity.
