Civilization and ethics : $b The philosophy of civilization, part 2Schweitzer, Albert
Philosophy
Civilization and ethics : $b The philosophy of civilization, part 2
Schweitzer, Albert
Civilization -- History; Ethics
54 John Stuart Mill: _Principles of Political Economy_ (2 vols.,
1848); _Utilitarianism_ (1861). There is a German translation of his
works by Th. Gomperz (12 vols., 1869-86). It was J. S. Mill who
introduced into philosophy the word “utilitarian” as the descriptive
title of this particular school of ethic.
55 Charles Darwin: _The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to
Sex_ (1871).
56 Herbert Spencer: _Social Statics_ (1851); _The Data of Ethics_
(1879); _The Principles of Ethics_ (1892).
57 Henri de Saint-Simon: _L’Organisateur_ (1819-20); _Catéchisme des
Industriels_ (1823-24).
58 Charles Fourier: _Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire_
(1829).
59 P. J. Proudhon: _Qu’est-ce que la Propriété?_ (1840).
60 Robert Owen: _A New View of Society_ (1813); and _Book of the New
Moral World_ (7 parts, 1836-49).
61 Ferdinand Lassalle: _Das System der erwonbenen Rechte_ (2 vols.,
1861); _Offenes Antwortschreiben an das Centralkomitee zur Berufung
eines allgemeinen deutschen Arbeiterkongresses_ (1863).
62 Karl Marx: _Manifesto of the Communist Party_ (1848, in
collaboration with Friedrich Engels); _Capital_ (vol. i., 1867; the
second and third volumes were published in 1884 and 1894 by Friedrich
Engels).
63 The same spirit pervades the work of the national economist, Gustav
Schmoller of Berlin: _Concerning Some Questions of Law and National
Economy_ (1875). Schmoller was the leader of the so-called “Socialists
of the Chair.”
64 The first to set before Christendom its duty to take part in the
solution of the social question is Félicité de Lamennais (1782-1854)
in his _Paroles d’un croyant_ (1833). This book was condemned by the
Pope in 1834.
65 The English public was made familiar with working-class misery by
Kingsley’s novel _Yeast_ (which appeared in 1848 in _Fraser’s
Magazine_, and in 1851 was printed as a book), and by two articles of
Henry Mayhew’s in the _Morning Chronicle_ (December 14th and 18th,
1849). That Christian Socialism made its appearance first in England
and France is connected with the fact that the industry which creates
social problems developed earliest in these countries.
66 Leo Tolstoi: _My Confessions_; German translation as _Worin besteht
mein Glaube_ (1884); French as _Ma Religion_ (1884); English as
_Christ’s Christianity_ (1885). See also _What then shall we do?_
(German, 1886). The fact that Tolstoi’s ethical Christianity
associates itself with contempt for civilization brings it near to
primitive Christianity. But the all-important question, how the power
of the ethical thoughts of Jesus are to work in the temper and the
circumstances of modern times, it does not answer. Tolstoi is a great
stimulator but no guide.
67 Eduard Bernstein: _The Presuppositions of Socialism, and the Tasks
of Social Democracy_ (1899).
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