§ 1. _Typical divisions of theories_:--Teleological and
jural, 224; individual and institutional, 225; empirical and
intuitional, 226. § 2. _Division of voluntary activity into
Inner and Outer_:--The "how" and the "what," 227; attitude
and consequences, 228; different types of each theory, 229;
bearing of each theory upon problems of knowledge and
of control, 231. § 3. _General interpretation of these
theories_:--Ordinary view of disposition and of consequences,
232; advantages claimed for emphasis upon consequences, 234;
for emphasis upon disposition or attitude, 236; necessity of
reconciliation of these theories, 237.
XIII. CONDUCT AND CHARACTER 240
Problem of their relation, 240. § 1. _The good will of
Kant_:--Emphasis upon motive, 241; motive with or without
consequences, 242; necessity of effort, 243; overt action
required to prove motive, 245. § 2. _The "Intention" of the
Utilitarians_:--Emphasis upon consequences, 246; distinction
of intention from motive, 247; they are really identical,
248; motive as blind and as intelligent, 249; practical
importance of insistence upon consequences, 251; foresight
of consequences depends upon motive, 252. § 3. _Conduct and
character_:--The nature of disposition, 254; partial and
complete intention, 256; complexity of motives, 257. § 4.
_Morality of acts and of agents_:--Subjective and objective
morality, 259; the doer and his deed, 260; summary, 261.
XIV. HAPPINESS AND CONDUCT: THE GOOD AND DESIRE 263
Residence and nature of goodness, 263; happiness as the
good, 264; love of happiness as the evil, 265; ambiguity in
conception of happiness, 266. § 1. _The Object of Desire_:--Is
it pleasure? 269; desire presupposes instinctive appetites,
270; and objects of thought, 271; happiness and desire, 272;
need for standard, 274. § 2. _The Conception of Happiness as a
Standard_:--Utilitarian method, 275; Difficulty of measuring
pleasure, 276; character determines the value of a pleasure,
277; Mill's introduction of quality of pleasure, 279. § 3.
_The constitution of happiness_:--Pleasures depend upon
objects, 281; they are qualitative, 282; they vary with
disposition, 283; happiness as the moral good, 284.
XV. HAPPINESS AND SOCIAL ENDS 286
Utilitarianism aims at social welfare, 286; value as a theory
of social reform, 287; its aim conflicts with its hedonistic
theory of motive, 289; Bentham's method of reconciling
personal and general happiness, 291; Mill's method, 293;
sympathy and the social self, 298; the distinctively moral
interest, 300; equation of virtue and happiness, 301; moral
democracy, 303.
XVI. THE PLACE OF REASON IN THE MORAL LIFE: MORAL KNOWLEDGE 306
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