Moral philosophy : Including theoretical and practical ethics / Joseph Haven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haven, Joseph, 1816-1874, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages)

Other Title:

Moral philosophy

Place of Publication:

New York : Sheldon & Company, [1859]

Summary:

The present volume is the result of the author's studies while Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Amherst College, and was originally prepared as a course of lectures to the senior class in that Institution. It was intended as a sequel to the author's treatise on Mental Philosophy. It has been the aim of the author to give, as far as possible, a science of morals, and not merely a treatise on moral subjects. With a view to this, the principles which lie at the foundation of the science are first discussed, as concisely as may be, in the opening division of the work; and in the subsequent division these principles are considered in their application to the practical duties and relations of life. Of the several classes of duties, that class which pertains to the state-or Political Ethics-has received in these pages a fuller discussion than is usually given in works of this kind; yet not fuller, perhaps, than its relative importance demands.

Notes:

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