A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution

[51] As the "revision" of the theoretical part of this book chiefly consists, like its abridgment, in the elimination of the references to Divine Will and other earlier views he...

development of the moral sense from the social instincts, through the pleasure of association and service, remorse being a result of the power of representation, regard for the...

Mr. Stephen questions the possibility of our determining at all what a state of ideal morality should be. I should contend, on the contrary, that there would be little disagreem...

The exact circumstances which led, in any particular line of descent, to the final production of self-conscious altruism we cannot know. We may, perhaps, as has been hinted, tra...

Carneri, in consistency with his scepticism as to feeling in animals, remarks that, with man, the struggle for happiness is added to the struggle for existence. Wallace and othe...

It is interesting to notice the opinions of different scientists and philosophers as to the extent to which reason is diffused in the universe, where the point lies at which the...

The necessity of the constant assimilation of savage tribes, of the peopling of thinly inhabited areas, renders social evolution as a whole exceedingly slow. Nor can there be, e...

In Professor Alexander's statement that "the good man of former days was as good as the good man of to-day,"[256] the standard applied to the two cases compared is not the same;...

The preceding considerations have made it evident that the idea of Evolution has undergone a broadening process since Darwin first brought it before the world. It is necessary t...

Hume, in his essay on the Passions, writes: "What is commonly, in a popular sense, called reason, and is so much recommended in moral discourses, is nothing but a general and ca...

In any discussion of the will, we are met at the outset by the difficulties of definition, on which whole chapters might be, and have been, written. But one great difficulty has...

Twenty years ago, any one about to deal with moral science from the standpoint of the Theory of Evolution, might have deemed it necessary to preface his work with a statement of...

In the preface to the latest edition of his "Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte," Haeckel, writing of recent developments of thought on the subject of evolution, and the change of...

Inductions of Ethics." It opens with a chapter on the confusion of ethical thought due to the fact that, conforming to the general law of evolution, "the set of conceptions cons...

MACKENZIE: An Introduction to Social Philosophy. By JOHN S. MACKENZIE, M.A., B.A., Assistant Lecturer on Philosophy in Owens College, Manchester, formerly Examiner in Philosophy...

HARTMANN (E. VON): Philosophy of the Unconscious. Speculative Results accorded to the Inductive Method of Physical Science. Translated in English by W. C. COUPLAND, M.A. 3 vols....

considerations concerning "The Ethics of Individual Life," under the headings "Activity," "Rest," "Nutrition," "Stimulation," "Culture," "Amusements," "Marriage," "Parenthood."...

Criticism of Alexander's theory of the right as always absolute right and as the expression, on all planes of development, of an equal equilibrium--The Moral Evolution as one in...

The gradual character of the evolution of Altruism--Paul Friedmann on the genesis of benevolence--The observable growth of Altruism from Egoism in the individual--Human society...

Hume on Reason and Passion--The constant connection of Thought with Feeling, and with Feeling as pleasure or pain--The question as to whether Thought or Feeling is primary--Appl...

Extension of the meaning of Darwinian concepts since Darwin--Lewes on the Struggle for Existence as internal--The mystery of "Variation" according to Darwin not a metaphysical m...

Criticism of Stephen's assertion that the ideal cannot be determined--The necessity of the choice between evils, under present social conditions--The argument for individual gra...

The question as to the extent to which Reason is diffused in the universe--Darwin and Haeckel on Reason and Instinct--Du Prel on Reason as a fundamental property of all matter--...

Prototypes in other animal species of what we term Egoism and Altruism in man; care for the young on the part of the parent-animal; mutual aid between the sexes; animal societie...

The assimilative character of human progress--The character of our savage ancestors--Greek civilization--The Greek treatment of children--Of old men--Human sacrifices among the...

Difficulties of definition--The Will and Consciousness--"Involuntary" action--Will in passivity--The concept of Choice--"Ends" and the Will--The Future and Will--The External an...

social life[52]; this chapter was, however, published from the original MS. without alteration. Some passages in Part II. seem to involve the same idea of a possible complete at...