The Ethics of Progress: Or, The Theory and the Practice by which Civilization Proceeds

Charles Fletcher Dole

T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1909 - Ethics - 398 pages

Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.

Contents

• ETHICS AND EVOLUTION CHAPTER PAGE I THE NEW CONDITIONS OF ETHICAL STUDY: 3
• THE MATERIAL OF ETHICAL STUDY: 12
• Two RIVAL THEORIES: 19
• THE SELFISH WORLD AND THE SOCIAL WORLD: 24
• SELFISHNESS AT ITS BEST OR HEDONISM: 32
• THE ETHICS OF REFINED SELFISHNESS: 36
• A CRITICAL QUESTION: 43
• THE ULTIMATE MYSTERY: 49
• PART II: 57
• THE HIGHEST KIND OF HAPPINESS: 68
• THE IDEAL MAN AND THE IDEAL SOCIETY: 74
• WHY WE SAY GOOD WILL: 84
• RELIGION AND ETHICS: 90
• THE STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLE: 97
• A SUGGESTION ABOUT EVIL: 104
• PART III: 107
• THE TRAGEDIES OF CONSCIENCE: 121
• RIGHT AND WRONG: 126
• A SIDE LIGHT UPON CONSCIENCE: 130
• CHAPTER PAGE V THE DEEPER FACTS OF CONSCIENCE: 134
• THE NATURE OF RIGHT: 140
• WHAT THE RIGHT IS LIKE: 147
• THE TRUTH: 155
• PART IV: 161
• A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD EVIL: 170
• THE NEW ATTITUDE IN ETHICS: 176
• A SECRET OF LIFE: 180
• ABOUT MOTIVES: 190
• THE ETHICAL MOTIVES: 198
• THE VICTORIOUS TONE: 206
• PART V: 213
• A CHAPTER OF SKEPTICISM: 221
• THE MYSTERY OF PERSONALITY: 225
• ESSENTIAL FREEDOM: 229
• RESPONSIBILITY: 238
• BLAME: 246
• SHAME GUILT AND DESERT: 251
• A NEW LIGHT ON FORGIVENESS: 259
• MORAL DETERMINISM: 262
• PART VI: 265
• THE SUBJECTS OF CASUISTRY: 271
• WHAT JUSTICE IS: 276
• CHAPTER PAGE IV A BIT OF SOPHISTRY: 283
• WHAT TO DO: 289
• LEGALITY AND RIGHT: 298
• THE DOUBLE STANDARD: 304
• THE HIGHER LAW: 308
• TO GROW: 312
• PART VII: 317
• MORALITIES IN PROCESS OF GROWTH: 323
• WHY IS GAMBLING WRONG?: 332
• THE PROBLEM OF TEMPERANCE: 335
• PERSONAL RIGHTS: 341
• NEW POLITICAL RIGHTS: 348
• THE ETHICS OF THE SWORD: 357
• THE FIXED PRINCIPLES: 363
• SOCIAL GROUPS: 370
• RIGHT AND WRONG KINDS OF COMPROMISE: 374
• THE PROBLEM OF THE REFORMER: 381
• AN OBJECTION: 384
• Is MAN IMPROVABLE?: 388
• THE LAW OF PROGRESS: 391
• THE RELIGION OF GOOD WILL: 396

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ethics of Progress: Or, The Theory and the Practice by which Civilization Proceeds
• Author: Charles Fletcher Dole
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1909
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Aug 11, 2008
• Length: 398 pages