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W. R. Sorley. On the Ethics of Naturalism
On the Ethics of Naturalism
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. ETHICS AND ITS PROBLEMS
CHAPTER II. EGOISM
CHAPTER III. THE TRANSITION TO UTILITARIANISM
CHAPTER IV. MORAL SENTIMENT
CHAPTER V. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORALITY
CHAPTER VI. EVOLUTION AND ETHICAL THEORIES
CHAPTER VII. HEDONISM AND EVOLUTIONISM
CHAPTER VIII. THE EVOLUTIONIST END
CHAPTER IX. ON THE BASIS OF ETHICS
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W. R. Sorley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It is difficult to give an exact definition or even description of what I have called the "natural" view of man. Perhaps it may be best defined, negatively, as the view which denies to reason any spontaneous or creative function in the human constitution. For this definition, if it still leaves the positive description wanting, will at least make the classification into "natural" and "rational" exhaustive and mutually exclusive. At the same time it is to be noted that, on the theory of Naturalism, reason is not supposed to be excluded from all share in determining questions of conduct or the choice of ends. It would, indeed, be impossible to have even the pretence of an ethical theory without a certain use of reason. But its function, in this case, is limited to the merely formal one of bringing different presentations (or objects) and feelings into connection, and comparing the different states of mind thus formed with one another, not with a reason-given standard.
