History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Philosophy
History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Ethics; Europe -- Moral conditions
Inductive, ambiguity of the term, as applied to morals, i. 73
Industrial truth, characteristics of, i. 137.
Influence of the promotion of industrial life upon morals, 139-140
Infanticide, history of the practice of, ii. 24.
Efforts of the Church to suppress it, 29.
Roman laws relating to, 31.
Causes of, in England, 285
Infants, Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptised, i. 96.
The Sacrament given to, in the early Church, ii. 6
Insanity, alleged increase of, ii. 60.
Theological notions concerning, 86.
The first lunatic asylums, 88
Insurance societies among the poor of Greece and Rome, ii. 78
Intellectual progress, its relations to moral progress, i. 149-151
Interest, self-, human actions governed exclusively by, according to the
Utilitarians, i. 7, 8, _note_.
Summary of the relations of virtue and public and private, 117
Intuition, rival claims of, and utility to be regarded as the supreme
regulator of moral distinctions, i. 1, 2.
Various names by which the theory of intuition is known, 2, 3.
Views of the moralists of the school of, 3.
Summary of their objections to the Utilitarian theory, i. 69.
The intuitive school, 74, 75.
Doctrines of Butler, Adam Smith, and others, 76-77.
Analogies of beauty and virtue, 77.
Distinction between the higher and lower parts of our nature, 83.
Moral judgments, and their alleged diversities, 91.
General moral principles alone revealed by intuition, 99.
Intuitive morals not unprogressive, 102, 103.
Difficulty of both the intuitive and utilitarian schools in finding a
fixed frontier line between the lawful and the illicit, 116,
117.
The intuitive and utilitarian schools each related to the general
condition of society, 122.
Their relations to metaphysical schools, 123, 124.
And to the Baconian philosophy, 125.
Contrasts between ancient and modern civilisations, 126, 127.
Practical consequences of the opposition between the two schools, 127
Inventions, the causes which accelerate the progress of society in modern
times, i. 126
Ireland, why handed over by the Pope to England, ii. 217
Irenæus, his belief that all Christians had the power of working miracles,
i. 378
Irish, characteristics of the, i. 138.
Their early marriages and national improvidences, 146.
Absence of moral scandals among the priesthood, 146.
Their legend of the islands of life and death, 203.
Their missionary labours, ii. 246.
Their perpendicular burials, 253
Isidore, St., legend of, ii. 205
Isis, worship of, at Rome, i. 387.
Suppression of the worship, 402
Italians, characteristics of the, i. 138, 144
Italy, gigantic development of mendicancy in, ii. 98.
Introduction of monachism into, 106
James, the Apostle, Eusebius’ account of him, ii. 105
James, St., of Venice, his kindness to animals, ii. 172
Jenyns, Soame, his adherence to the opinion of Ockham, i. 17, _note_
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