conduct as life-forces, and the conscience becomes more and more _de
facto_, as it is _de jure_, sovereign for moral obedience. And thus
Christianity supplies the divine and sufficient dynamic for the full
realization of the ethical life.
INDEX.
Absolutism, Divine, 149-151.
Actions, objects of moral judgment, 183-187.
Affections, benevolent, not supreme, 90-92.
Agnostic tendencies, 81-83, 120-124.
Aim, ethical, in Christianity, 197-198.
Altruism, 154, 161.
Analogy, supports relational theory, 176-177.
Anthropological testimony, 34.
Applicatory moral judgments, 51-52, 67-68, 92-97, 128.
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 25.
Aristotle, 16, 18, 33, 152.
Assyria, 43.
Assurance of success, quickening to moral endeavor, 220-222.
Aurelius, Marcus, 33.
Authority, moral, belongs not to utility or pleasure, 158-160;
nor to "the beautiful," 144;
but to "the right," supremely, 79-80, 87-88, 126-136, 158-159,
178-191;
to conscience, as discerning the right, 57-58, 86-99, 104.
Bain, Alexander, 121, 154.
Benevolent affections, not supreme, 90-92.
Bentham, Jeremy, 154.
Book of the Dead, 33.
Bowne, Prof. Borden P., 29, 36, 62, 153, 170, 186.
Brahmanism, 32, 142.
Buckle, 43.
Buddhism, 32, 126, 142, 221-222.
Butler, Bishop, 110-111, 154.
Calderwood, 167.
Cato, 33.
Christ, personal embodiment of his own teaching, 203-204.
Christian ethics, completes the ethical view, 198-200;
sources of, 200-205;
special features of, 205-217.
Christianity, relation of, to rational ethics, 26-27, 196-198;
its distinctive teachings, 205-217;
affords power for the moral task, 218-227.
Cicero, 16, 33.
Clarke, Samuel, 166.
Cocker, B. D., quoted, 173.
Coleridge, 167.
Confucianism, 32.
Confucius, 141.
Conscience, simple or complex, 37-39; its existence proved, 39-55;
its psychological place, 59-62;
its nature determined, 62-83;
theistic, 79-80, 86-88;
supremacy of, 83-92;
acts of necessity, 78-80;
educable, 104, 199-200;
conceivably formed through theistic evolution, 83-85;
enlightened by Christian teaching, 198-217;
becomes efficient through Christian forces, 218-227.
Consciousness, testimony as to freedom, 108-110;
Christian, source for formulation of ethics, 204-205.
Cudworth, 167.
Demerit, import and measure of, 70-72.
Deontology, 16 (note).
Des Cartes, René, 150.
Dividing line between true and false ethical theories, 130-132.
Diversity of moral judgments, 48, 173.
Dorner, Dr., quoted, 150.
Druidism, 32.
Duty defined, 65.
Dynamic, moral, 198, 218-227.
Education of conscience, 74, 104.
Egypt, 43, 126.
Epictetus, 148.
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