Selected writings on ethics and politics / / Bernard Bolzano ; translated by Paul Rusnock & Rolf George.

• Superior document: Studien zur osterreichischen Philosophie ; Bd. 40
• Author: Bolzano, Bernard, 1781-1848.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur osterreichischen Philosophie ; Bd. 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Celebrated today for his groundbreaking work in logic and the foundations of mathematics, Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) was best known in his own time as a leader of the reform movement in his homeland (Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire). As professor of religious science at the Charles Univer...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• Want of Enlightenment (Ignorance and Error) Must be Seen as the True Cause of the Evils that Beset our Fatherland: Read on the second Sunday after Easter, 1817 [April 20]
• Several Very Important Consequences and Duties that Follow from the Conviction that Want of Enlightenment (Ignorance and Error) is the Cause of the Evils that Beset our Fatherland: Read on the third Sunday after Easter, 1817 [April 27]
• On Ways and Means of Already Bringing about a Better Shape of Things at the Present Time: Read on the last Sunday after Pentecost in the year 1816 [November 3]
• On Correct Conduct towards Enemies of Enlightenment: Read on the Feast of the Epiphany, 1816 [January 6]
• On Correct Conduct towards Enemies of Enlightenment (conclusion): Read on the first Sunday after Epiphany, 1816 [January 7]
• On Duties towards Unjust Authorities: Read on Palm Sunday in 1812 [March 22]
• On the Relations between the two Peoples of Bohemia
• On the Relations between the two Peoples of Bohemia (continuation): Read on the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, 1816 [July 28]
• On the Relations between the two Peoples of Bohemia (conclusion): Read on the ninth Sunday after Pentecost, 1816 [August 4]
• On Conduct towards the Jewish Nation: Read on the Feast of the Presentation of our Lady at the Temple, 1809 [Nov. 21]
• On the Mission and Dignity of Womanhood: Read on the Feast of the Ascension of Mary, 1810 [August 15]
• On the Right of the Clergy to obtain their Livelihood from Persons not of their Faith (selections)
• Selections from the Treatise of the Science of Religion: On the Concept of Religion, on Different Kinds of Religion and our Obligations with Respect to Religion
• There are Truths
• There are several, and indeed infinitely many truths
• We humans are in a position to know truths, and actually do know some
• We do, indeed, sometimes err in our judgments; but under certain conditions we can be more or less assured that we do not err
• Human beings are capable of being virtuous and happy
• Many of the concepts and opinions people hold have an influence on their virtue as well as on their happiness
• We sometimes wish that we had certain beliefs
• We sometimes wish that we had certain beliefs
• The concept of a moral proposition
• Concept of the word religion
• Concept of the most perfect religion
• A person’s highest duty with respect to his religion
• A more detailed exposition of the particular duties contained in this highest duty
• Natural Morality: Contents of this part
• Concept and existence of a highest moral law
• Derivation of this highest moral law
• Objections against this highest moral law
• Brief assessment of the most common differing opinions on the highest moral law
• Uncertainty of all human virtue
• What leads us to be untrue to our virtuous principles?
• There are means of promoting virtue.
• There are means of promoting virtue.
• Several rules that may be applied in determining the relative worth of various cultivators of virtue.
• Foreword
• Introduction
• On the citizens, the extent and the divisions of the state
• On legislation
• On government
• On means of coercion
• On freedom
• On equa.