Bishop Butler. Moralist and Divine / / William J. Norton, Jr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Norton, Jr., William J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1940]; ©1940
• Year of Publication: 1940
• Edition: Reprint 2022
• Language: English
• Series: RUPSPHIL ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.) :; 1 frontisp.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE: THE MORAL QUEST -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 BUTLER AND HIS TIMES -- 3 RIVAL THEORIES OF VIRTUE -- 4 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM -- PART TWO: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MORAL SELF -- 5 ANALYSIS OF HUMAN NATURE -- 6 PARTICULAR PROPENSIONS -- 7 PRINCIPLE OF BENEVOLENCE -- 8 BENEVOLENCE AND VIRTUE -- 9 PRINCIPLE OF SELF-LOVE -- 10 SELF-LOVE AND BENEVOLENCE -- 11 CONSCIENCE -- 12 CONSCIENCE AND COMPLETED SELF -- 13 CONSCIENCE AND SELF-LOVE -- 14 VICE IN THE MORAL SELF -- PART THREE: SOME METAPHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE MORAL SELF -- 15 SELF-IDENTITY -- 16 PROBLEM OF IMMORTALITY -- PART FOUR: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- 17 NATURE OF SOCIETY -- 18 ECONOMIC ASPECT OF SOCIETY -- 19 POLITICAL ASPECT OF SOCIETY -- 20 MORAL ASPECT OF SOCIETY -- 21 RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF SOCIETY -- PART FIVE. THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE -- 22 THE UNIVERSE AS IDEAL -- 23 THE UNIVERSE AS SPIRITUAL -- 24 GOD: HIS RELATION TO MAN -- 25 REIGN OF LAW IN HUMAN NATURE -- 26 OBJECTIVITY OF MORAL LAW -- PART SIX. THE MORAL LIFE -- 27 DOCTRINE OF VIRTUE -- 28 NATURAL RELIGION -- 29 REVEALED RELIGION -- 30 REVEALED RELIGION -- 31 REASON IN THE MORAL LIFE -- 32 CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- INDEX