Ethics, defined, 15-17;
historically sketched, 17-20;
how divided, 21-23;
relation to psychology, 23;
to natural theology, 24;
to Christian theology, 25;
partly psychological, 21-22, 59;
partly metaphysical, 21-22, 119-120;
relation of evolution to, 54-55, 83-85, 132-137;
illuminated by Christianity, 196-217;
task of, under Christianity, 218-227.
Eudæmonism, 144-153.
Evolution, in relation to conscience, 54-55, 83-85, 132;
to objective moral law, 132-137, 154-155.
Fact, the primary ethical, 28-36.
Faculty, as applied to the conscience, 37-38;
psychologically described, 62-80.
Failure of utilitarianism, 155-160.
Fallibility of conscience, 52, 92-94, 103-105.
Fatalism, in Stoic virtue, 147.
Feelings, moral, a part of conscience, 72-77;
feelings, objects of moral judgment, 187-189.
Flint, Prof., quoted, 218.
Freedom, personal, abridged in ancient nations, 17-18.
Free-will, necessary to moral agency, 66, 105-106;
alternative choice, 106-107, 159;
proof of, 107-112;
excluded by materialism, 112-113.
God, existence of required by moral law, 79-80, 87-88, 135;
relation to moral law, 126, 135-136, 149-151, 158, 169, 172,
178-181, 208-215;
moral duties due to Him, 169-170, 222-223.
Good, the chief, 143, 145, 146, 148.
Greece, 17, 43, 143-148.
Gregory, Dr. D. S., 166.
Grote, 123.
Grotius, Hugo, 149-150.
Ground of right, the point defined, 139;
sometimes confounded with ground of obligation, 138-139;
various theories, 140-167;
Egyptian, 140;
Chinese, 141;
Indian, 142;
Zoroastrian, 142-143;
Greek, 143-148;
Roman, 148;
Divine absolutism, 149-150;
of Hobbes, 151;
sympathetic, 152;
utilitarian, 152-165;
of relations, 165;
spiritual excellence, 166;
direct intuition, 167;
as subjective or objective, 139-140, 168;
proximate ground, 168-178;
ultimate, 178-181;
not in mere "will" of God, 179-180.
Guilt of wrong-doing, 210-212.
Hamilton, Sir William, 121, 122.
Happiness, an end, but not supreme, 161-163;
idea of, not identical with that of right, 156;
without the moral imperative, 158-160.
Hedonism, 146.
Herbert Spencer, on moralizing effects of intellectualism, 43;
on relativity of knowledge, 122;
explanation of the moral sentiments, 35, 155.
Heredity and conscience, 83-84.
Hickock, Dr. Laurens P., 166.
Historical witness to the ethical distinctions, 29-31.
History of ethics, glance at, 17-20.
Hobbes, 151.
Horace, 33.
Hume, 152, 154.
Hutcheson, 154.
Imperative, the moral, 65-66, 99, 158, 212-213.
Instinct, not conscience, 57-58.
Intentions, have moral quality, 190;
teleological motives, 190.
Intuitional, the conscience perceptions, 60-63, 76, 78-79.
Jouffroy, Theo. Simon, 166.
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