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M. Valentine. Theoretical Ethics
Theoretical Ethics
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THEORETICAL ETHICS
CHAPTER I. DEFINITION AND DIVISIONS
CHAPTER II. THE FACT OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS
CHAPTER III. FACULTY OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS—THE EXISTENCE OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER IV. THE FACULTY OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS—THE NATURE OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER V. THE SUPREMACY OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER VI. MORAL AGENCY
CHAPTER VII. THE REALITY OF RIGHT AND WRONG
CHAPTER VIII. THE GROUND OF RIGHT
CHAPTER IX. THE GROUND OF RIGHT—CONTINUED
CHAPTER X. THE OBJECTS OF MORAL JUDGMENT
CHAPTER XI. THE ETHICAL VIEW UNDER CHRISTIAN TEACHING
CHAPTER XII. THE ETHICAL TASK UNDER CHRISTIANITY
Footnote
INDEX
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M. Valentine
Published by Good Press, 2021
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2. It is found incorporated into the social organism. What each man is conscious of doing in his own inner life, society, in its solidarity or constitutional unity, is found doing and enforcing. Organic humanity reveals the presence of the ethical conception and sure lines of its action everywhere. However diverse may be its judgments, there is such a thing as a public conscience that holds up conduct to favor or reprobation, not simply as beneficial or injurious but as being intrinsically right or wrong.
The social constitution is in fact framed together under the human capacity and necessity of perceiving and fulfilling the duties that arise in the inter-relations of associated life. For, the very laws and administrations on which the social order and welfare are dependent, and through which they are in a measure secured, are the embodiment of the ethical ideas and judgments of the people. No adjustment of relations is possible except upon this foundation. The obliteration of these ideas would mean social anarchy. "Society," says Prof. Borden P. Bowne, "in its organized form, is a moral institution with moral ends. However selfish individuals may be, they cannot live together without a social order which rests on moral ideas."7
