History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Volume 1

Longmans, Green, 1869 - 498 pages

Contents

• CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME: 21
• Objections to the School: 34
• Consequence of Acting on Utilitarian Principles: 43
• Utilitarian Sanctions: 55
• The suffering caused by vice not proportioned to its criminality: 63
• The best men seldom the happiest: 70
• Intuitive School: 77
• Alleged Diversities of Moral Judgment: 94
• General moral principles alone revealed by intuition: 102
• The standard though not the essence of virtue determined: 113
• Each of the Two Schools of Morals related to the General Condition: 127
• The Order in which Moral Feelings are developed: 136
• By large towns: 152
• The moral standard of most men lower in political than: 158
• CHAPTER II: 169
• character: 181
• Recognition of Providence: 209
• The literature of Consolations: 215
• Suicide: 223
• Grandeur of the Stoical ideal: 234
• Growth of a Gentler and more Cosmopolitan Spirit in Rome: 240
• Greek cosmopolitanism due to philosophical criticism and: 242
• Multitude of emancipated slaves: 248
• But not equally so of representing the softening spirit of the age: 255
• The People still very corrupt Causes of the Corruption: 271
• Moral consequences of slavery Increase of idleness and: 277
• And of military virtue: 284
• Their effects upon the theatre: 293
• The manner in which their influence pervaded Roman lite: 299
• The passion for them not inconsistent with humanity in other: 305
• Third it greatly extended Roman law: 312
• Slaveryits three stages at Rome Review of the condition: 318
• Opinions of philosophers about slavery: 324
• Maximus of Tyr: 331
• Passion for Oriental Religions: 337
• VOL I: 353
• CHAPTER III: 357
• Miracles not impossible: 369
• By strengthening their power of abstraction and thus closing: 375
• Common error in reasoning about miracles: 384
• Illustrations of this from divination witchcraft and the kings: 396
• The Persecution the Church underwent not of a Nature to crush: 420
• History of this belief: 434
• Charges of immorality brought against Christians: 440
• Antipathy of the Romans to every system which employed: 447
• And of diversity of belief: 454

Bibliographic information

• Title: History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Volume 1
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, 1869
• Original from: National Central Library of Florence
• Digitized: May 16, 2014
• Length: 498 pages