The Quest for Moral Law / Louise Saxe Eby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eby, Louise Saxe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1944]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the ultimate aim of ethics in moral law from many different perspectives including, Confucius, Buddha, Aristotle, and Jesus.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Part One: Some Classic Ethical Systems

I. The Meaning of Moral Law

II. The Chinese Mind in Ethics: Confucius

III. The Radical Ethic of Gautama, the Buddha

IV. Socrates, Pioneer of the Western Ethical Thinkers

V. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

VI. Jesus and the Jewish-Christian Ethical Heritage

VII. Spanning the Realms of Nature and Grace: Saint Thomas Aquinas

VIII. Pantheism and Determinism in the Ethic of Benedict de Spinoza

IX. Kant's Construction: the Categorical Imperative of Duty

X. The Impact of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries on Ethics

Part Two: Making Ethics a Science

XI. The Content Of Moral Law

XII. The Problem of Ethical Method

XIII. Unsolved Problems and Undiscerned Ends in Ethics

XIV. The Dimensions of Ethics

XV. The Aim of Ethics

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89685-9

OCLC:

1100433334