The Quest for Moral Law / / Louise Saxe Eby.
Examines the ultimate aim of ethics in moral law from many different perspectives including, Confucius, Buddha, Aristotle, and Jesus.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1944] ©1944 |
| Year of Publication: | 1944 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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